Manually escaping --target-path for network share on Windows.

[realbogart]

Hello,

I just tried out this cool tool after a friend recommended it. On my first test run I think I ran in to a bug. Here is the command I ran:

longtail upsync --log-level=debug --source-path="C:\musik" --target-path="\\vault\backup\longtail\index\2024-02-26.lvi" --storage-uri="\\vault\backup\longtail\store"

The command succeded and it filled the store with files, but the index file 2024-02-26.lvi never ended up on that path. Even though the debug showed this:

level=debug msg=splitURI fname=splitURI uri="\\\\vault\\backup\\longtail\\index\\2024-02-26.lvi"
level=info msg="wrote 15110230 bytes" fname=WriteToURI uri="\\\\vault\\backup\\longtail\\index\\2024-02-26.lvi"

I managed to make it work by manually escaping every backslash in the --target-path.:
longtail upsync --log-level=debug --source-path="C:\musik" --target-path="\\\\vault\\backup\\longtail\\index\\2024-02-26.lvi" --storage-uri="\\vault\backup\longtail\store"

So only manually escaping the path for the --target-path, but not for the store. I think the scary part is that it silently succeded. This workaround works for me but I wanted to report it anyway.

Thank you!

[DanEngelbrecht]

Maybe it gets confused since you don’t provide a drive letter on the target path?
Could you try adding that? There should be no need to escape the backslashes.

[realbogart]

Maybe it gets confused since you don’t provide a drive letter on the target path? Could you try adding that? There should be no need to escape the backslashes.

It's a network share and doesn't have a drive letter.

[DanEngelbrecht]

Ok, I will have a look, it probably gets confused trying to find the root folder.

[realbogart]

Noticed similar issue on other commands where it also works if I put in 4 backslashes:

longtail print-store --store-index-path="\\\\vault\backup\longtail\store\store.lsi"

longtail print-version --version-index-path="\\\\vault\\backup\\longtail\\index\\2024-02-26_test1.lvi"

Using only 2 backslashes like longtail print-version --version-index-path="\\vault\\backup\\longtail\\index\\2024-02-26_test1.lvi" Gives the following error message:

level=fatal msg="printVersion: ReadFromURI: fsBlobObject.Read: open /vault/backup/longtail/index/2024-02-26_test1.lvi: The system cannot find the file specified.: file does not exist"