Transmission Error: File name Too Long

[Charles Kerr]

Transmission doesn't have any code in it that limits filename length. Also, the phrase "Filename too long" is coming from Ubuntu, not Transmission... so I don't think switching BitTorrent clients will fix anything.

My first guess is that you're saving a long filename to a disk with an older filesystem -- I don't think I've ever seen this message in the real world on ext3/ext4. Are you perhaps saving the torrent to a flash drive or external HD that's formatted with fat32? Could you save it to a different disk instead?

[nitstorm]

Try using rtorrent, one of the best torrent downloaders ever. Super-light and picks up where another left off well. Once I started using rtorrent i quit everything else lol

here's a pretty good how-to for rtorrent:
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05...nt-like-a-pro/

hope this helps somewhat . Cheers!

[Ryuho]

Try using rtorrent, one of the best torrent downloaders ever. Super-light and picks up where another left off well. Once I started using rtorrent i quit everything else lol

here's a pretty good how-to for rtorrent:
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05...nt-like-a-pro/

hope this helps somewhat . Cheers!

Funny thing, I found this post because I'm getting the same error with rtorrent.

Hashing: Storage error: [Hash checker was unable to map chunk: File name too long]

Like Charles Kerr said, this error is coming from Ubuntu. However my rtorrent is running on ext3, standard install that formatted the drive. The drive I'm using is normal SATA connected 3.5 HDD.

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

One thing that does come to mind is that I'm downloading non-english (UTF-8, SHIFT_JIS, or ISO-2022-JP) file names, that could be it, maybe rtorrent doesn't support foreign languages.

[tripzilch]

Yeah. I'm getting the same error in Transmission. For anyone that wants to doublecheck, it's happening with this torrent of public domain homebrewing PDFs (all public domain, so it's legal, so it's not a problem to post the link for other people to check and perhaps help out here, right?) http://www.homebrewkorea.com/forums/...2&t=769&p=5815

I agree that at least ONE part of the behaviour is a bug in Transmission. Even if the "File name too long" error comes from the OS, Transmission should just skip that file and continue with the rest of the torrent. Currently it just pauses the entire torrent. Which makes it kind of hard to download the other files, because this forces me to disable downloading that one file, start the torrent again, and wait until it errors on the next file ... then repeat. Very tedious. And the torrent properties files tab list is unfortunately in a proportional (not monospaced) font, so it's very difficult to just eyeball from that list which filenames would be too long and which aren't.

That said, my filesystem is ext4. Somebody in the thread said this one shoudln't have any (significant) filename length limit? Is that correct? Then why do I get this error?

Another thing that is very strange, is that as I'm disabling files considered having a too long name, and restarting the torrent and such, I'm seeing in the file list that some of these "too long" files are already downloaded for as much as 65% ! How can that be? If the filename is too long, how can it be downloading these things? What's it complaining about?

[andrew.46]

Yeah. I'm getting the same error in Transmission. For anyone that wants to doublecheck, it's happening with this torrent of public domain homebrewing PDFs (all public domain, so it's legal, so it's not a problem to post the link for other people to check and perhaps help out here, right?) http://www.homebrewkorea.com/forums/...2&t=769&p=5815

I have just checked the torrent with Transmission and there seems to be no problem on my system. Admittedly I am using the latest Transmission, so perhaps there has been a bug fixed...

Andrew

[cherep]

I had the same problem with ext4. However, it works when I try to save the file to NTFS.

Transmission was used.

[boxie]

having the same problem with transmission and ext4.

when i go into the folder where the file is downloading and make a file with a long name, i get an error saying the file name is too long.

example name 'fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffff'

that isn't so many characters, is ext4 so limited that i can't make my file names this long? could this be a limitation of ubuntu and not ext4?

[asistjk]

I had the same problem with ext4. However, it works when I try to save the file to NTFS.

Transmission was used.

Thank you Cherep! It works for me too!!

[patryk77]

Yeah. I'm getting the same error in Transmission. For anyone that wants to doublecheck, it's happening with this torrent of public domain homebrewing PDFs (all public domain, so it's legal, so it's not a problem to post the link for other people to check and perhaps help out here, right?) http://www.homebrewkorea.com/forums/...2&t=769&p=5815

Same problem here on an ext4.

Try changing the download path:
Open terminal; type:

sudo mkdir /d
sudo chown MYUSERNAME /d

Then right click on the torrent in the download list, choose "select location" and move it to /d. It works for me with this particular file. Bug seems related to the entire path, not just the filename.

P.S.: Cheers! Awesome torrent is awesome!

[HiImTye]

I find it strange that NTFS worked but ext4 failed as ext4 has a limit of 256 bytes while NTFS is 255 characters

there are other file systems that have much larger file name limits, such as ReiserFS