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Unicode Encoding Conflict
Now, before you link me to the dropbox article on that, I have read already read it, but what I wanna know is, where it says :
What do I do now?
If one of your files is appended with the words...
shinkairi wrote:... isn't file name extension the .pdf? ...
Hi shinkairi,
Yes, file name extension is the part of the name after the last dot in that name (if any - may be missing). It's usually few letters (typically 3 or 4, but can be any number on most present day systems). In particular for Portable Document Format file type it's "pdf" or ".pdf" (dot is included for more expressive representation, 🤫 but formerly isn't integral part of the name extension itself; actually the last dot is just a separator between a basic name's part and the name extension).
shinkairi wrote:... All 3 are .pdf, so why would I change that? ...
If correct type of the documents match to the extensions, then you don't need to change anything.
shinkairi wrote:...
So, what you're basically saying, is that I need to figure out what the original (correct) file extension of that particular file was. ...
For sure the extension have to match to original file type, as I said above. Since you know already the files type (i.e. pdf), there is nothing needed to figure out.
shinkairi wrote:... So maybe it was a .docx or something, and I need to figure that out. ...
No, definitely not! If the extension was different, as a part of file name, then the file name would be different too. In this context, the conflict would be impossible. Since you have conflict (whatever type), that means there is a name match (from Dropbox point of view, at least).
Are you sure the extensions are matching still. 🤔 Maybe the unchanged name's extension is something like ".pdf", but changed name's extension looks like ".pdf (Unicode Encoding Conflict)" or something similar. 🙂 Isn't it? Again name's extension is everything after the last point!!! You can try move ".pdf" at the names end wherever it's not. 😉 That's it.
Historically left habits (like conclusion about file type based on name extension) is tedious things very often 🤷, but such things are changing in the "laziest" manner (i.e. most slowly).
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the info. Last question, promise.
Maybe I'm too stupid, but isn't file name extension the .pdf? All 3 are .pdf, so why would I change that? And to what?
So, what you're basically saying, is that I need to figure out what the original (correct) file extension of that particular file was. So maybe it was a .docx or something, and I need to figure that out. Is that it? Thanks.
shinkairi wrote:... isn't file name extension the .pdf? ...
Hi shinkairi,
Yes, file name extension is the part of the name after the last dot in that name (if any - may be missing). It's usually few letters (typically 3 or 4, but can be any number on most present day systems). In particular for Portable Document Format file type it's "pdf" or ".pdf" (dot is included for more expressive representation, 🤫 but formerly isn't integral part of the name extension itself; actually the last dot is just a separator between a basic name's part and the name extension).
shinkairi wrote:... All 3 are .pdf, so why would I change that? ...
If correct type of the documents match to the extensions, then you don't need to change anything.
shinkairi wrote:...
So, what you're basically saying, is that I need to figure out what the original (correct) file extension of that particular file was. ...
For sure the extension have to match to original file type, as I said above. Since you know already the files type (i.e. pdf), there is nothing needed to figure out.
shinkairi wrote:... So maybe it was a .docx or something, and I need to figure that out. ...
No, definitely not! If the extension was different, as a part of file name, then the file name would be different too. In this context, the conflict would be impossible. Since you have conflict (whatever type), that means there is a name match (from Dropbox point of view, at least).
Are you sure the extensions are matching still. 🤔 Maybe the unchanged name's extension is something like ".pdf", but changed name's extension looks like ".pdf (Unicode Encoding Conflict)" or something similar. 🙂 Isn't it? Again name's extension is everything after the last point!!! You can try move ".pdf" at the names end wherever it's not. 😉 That's it.
Historically left habits (like conclusion about file type based on name extension) is tedious things very often 🤷, but such things are changing in the "laziest" manner (i.e. most slowly).
Hope this helps.
Thank you very much.
