Page 1 of 1

SPACES in file names create problems!!

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:59 pm
by clarinetbob
I posted much of this same comment in another thread, but I thought it worthy of getting it's own title.

I searched these forums pretty extensively, and was surprised to see this topic hardly mentioned.

I am coming up on my 4th week of my free trial using the software, and although STELLAR at times, I'm not sure I've found a more exasperating piece of software. The latest bug I have found involved me having problems viewing pictures via streaming from my PC to an XBOX360. Some pictures streamed, and others didn't (the latter giving me the dreaded "X"). As I came to discover, if the file name of the photo contains NO spaces, it streams fine and I can view it on my XBOX 360. HOWEVER, if a file name has a space in it, it will NOT stream and I get the infamous gray "X"!!

I have over 9000 photos on my PC with spaces in the name. Now maybe someone else has time to rename 9000 photos, BUT I DON'T! I have seen comments from other users about the developers apparently not caring about file name formats and spaces...but that's HARD to believe. There are probably "tons" of users who have spaces in various file names, and this software will be worthless to them as it is to me. Some probably don't even know why it won't work! I've cruised these forums for the past 3 weeks as I've been coming to the end of my free 30-day trial, and I see LOTS of posts all scattered around that say "this streams but that won't stream"...and a lot of times it may be due to the file name spaces.

I'm coming to the end of my free trial, and there is NO WAY I will be plunking down $40 USD for this software. It's a shame, because when it works, it's great. And I think the developers are missing the boat, because TwonkyMedia just appeared in the March 2009 edition of Maximum PC, and there will probably be thousands of readers looking at this software...and finding nothing but a lot of bugs. If I were the developers, I'd examine this issue...closely and quickly!