On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 08:44:29PM +0000, Kepa wrote: > Funny: the path was p:/170 Buzon/oq.pdf, where the "o" was accentuated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93 Perhaps relevant: - what file systems are on each of those drives? NTFS? some Linux? (Background: most Unix/Linux file systems consider file names as strings of bytes. What encoding /characters/ have there is up to the application [1]; NTFS has UTF-16 encoded Unicode, although if you access it with POSIX fopen(), it gets translated to UTF-8). - what applications do you access "normally" the "drive" which is showing the problem? What did you create the file with? Cheers [1] typically to the process's locale's encoding which creates/accesses it. Lots of fun when they're not consistent :-) -- t