Defaultfolder and accented characters in iDisk

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paulclaude
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Defaultfolder and accented characters in iDisk

Post by paulclaude » Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:16 pm

It seems that, using the defaultfolder to access any iDisk folder with accented chars in the folder name, gives a "can't open directory" error and automatically unmount the iDisk volume.

Example:

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set the directory to "/Volumes/userName/Web/Sites/recettes/Recettes_réalisées_avec_du_matériel_files"
gives this error.

Any suggestion?

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Post by Janschenkel » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:31 am

Could you first use answer folder to select the iDisk folder, and then check its path?

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on mouseUp
  answer folder
  if the result is not "Cancel" then
    answer it
  end if
end mouseUp
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Post by paulclaude » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:50 am

Janschenkel wrote:Could you first use answer folder to select the iDisk folder, and then check its path?

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on mouseUp
  answer folder
  if the result is not "Cancel" then
    answer it
  end if
end mouseUp
Jan Schenkel.
Yes, Jan, without problems: the path is displayed correctly. The problem is that defaultFolder gives this error anyway, and it seems to me that it doesn't accept encoded paths.

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Post by Janschenkel » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:27 am

In that case, you should file a report in the Quality Control Center
Make sure to include your MacOSX version in the report.

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Post by paulclaude » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:43 am

Done. But I hoped that somebody could suggest a solution
Last edited by paulclaude on Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Post by paulclaude » Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:35 pm

Only to inform everybody: the same problem happens with the "there is" operator (it return false and the iDisk is unmounted).

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