Invalid Characters imported from GTRUORG
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I've had a couple of nasty encounters with INVALID CHARACTERS in files grabbed from GTRUORG which corrupt QTM torrents.
I suggest removing all : and " but in this case, the problem was characters that LOOKED like a - but were not.
See the two PINK bits.. which resemble a _ but are not
In the list.txt file I created.. they look like this..
HelixStudios - Beach Bums 8 - Wingman - Dawson Grant and Austin Lovett - 720p.mp4
HelixStudios - Beach Bums 6 - Drawing Him In - Travis Stevens & Chase Williams - 720p.mp4.mp4Someone on that other site SEEMS to have intentionally used invalid characters to mimic valid ones.
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@lololulu19 said in Invalid Characters imported from GTRUORG:
I've had a couple of nasty encounters with INVALID CHARACTERS in files grabbed from GTRUORG which corrupt QTM torrents.
I suggest removing all : and " but in this case, the problem was characters that LOOKED like a - but were not. See the two PINK bits.. which resemble a _ but are not
In the list.txt file I created.. they look like this..
HelixStudios - Beach Bums 8 - Wingman - Dawson Grant and Austin Lovett - 720p.mp4
HelixStudios - Beach Bums 6 - Drawing Him In - Travis Stevens & Chase Williams - 720p.mp4.mp4Someone on that other site SEEMS to have intentionally used invalid characters to mimic valid ones.
There is nothing nefarious here - there are 3 kinds of "dash" character in the full, extended ASCII English character set: a "full dash" and "M-dash" and an "N-dash" - and they are each of varying lengths.
In windows, the only real "dash" (on the keyboard) is actually an "N-Dash" (the shortest of the 3) ... other OS's (like MacOS, Linux, and others) aren't so choosy and allow any of them - but, in spite of looking quite similar, they are separate and distinct characters.
The fix is quite easy: right click on the files your client couldn't create and rename the files. To make sure there are no special characters, type in the full name right off of your keyboard.
Good Luck!
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@lololulu19 That is a typho...
underscore [ _ ] instead of dash [ - ] and is very common mistake...
[There is nothing wrong with that] valid character...
ex: of invalid character from renaming files are the ff: symbol
\ / : * ? " < >
as b4smooth stated yes you can rename the file if it is playable and the file is not corrupted... -
@bi4smooth you are truly the king of the "dash". I would disagree about how much of a problem it is though. Sure, I can easily rename files when downloading them if I get an error.. but torrent clients tend to accept strange characters. I think someone at GTRUORG is intentionally putting some strange characters into their file names, so that when people download them.. and then try to upload them here.. QTM chokes on them. You don't know until AFTER you try using the QTM created torrent if it will work or not. One solution might be for QTM to automatically replace any weird character with a normal character. Another solution would be to simply delete weird characters. Weird characters also cause problems in spreadsheets and documents.
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@lololulu19 said in Invalid Characters imported from GTRUORG:
....torrent clients tend to accept strange characters.
I'm surprised you're having any trouble at all.
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@flozen I very rarely do. It seems to be something new. I generally filter out weird characters. I noticed so many files with weird characters lately that I even complained to the uploader.
Two times when I tried uploading files with weird characters in the past week, I had a nightmare trying to find the problem QTM was having with them. I found the problem finally, after jackny told me what the cause of the problem was.
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@lololulu19 said in Invalid Characters imported from GTRUORG:
@flozen I very rarely do. It seems to be something new. I generally filter out weird characters. I noticed so many files with weird characters lately that I even complained to the uploader.
Two times when I tried uploading files with weird characters in the past week, I had a nightmare trying to find the problem QTM was having with them. I found the problem finally, after jackny told me what the cause of the problem was.
Afraid I don't use QTM - I'm old-school in a fashion - plus I usually seed from Linux systems
My knowledge of the different type-sets (character sets) comes professionally, not from torrenting... Linux vs. Windows vs. MacOS vs Mainframe...
