This isn’t specifically Unity-related, though it does involve the backing up of my game files. I signed up with Dreamhost about a month ago do to some praise it was receiving on these boards. They are allowing a very healthy amount of storage (500 GB to start), and I would like to utilize this as a backup of my files. However, I have been using spaces all over the place in my file names for readability, and that is really causing problems.
I tried making an Automator workflow to turn all my spaces into underscores, but that doesn’t work when I want to rename folders inside of folders inside of folders etc. A Better Finder Rename does the trick, but I don’t want to pay for this if I don’t have to. I find underscores or other substitutions for spaces absolutely disgusting to look at, but I guess I finally have to deal with this. I am interested to hear what other people use as solutions in this matter.
I don’t recognize the first and third terms you just listed. I am using Cyberduck for FTP . Spaces and apostrophes can be used, but if you try to move or write over anything, everything goes haywire. Dreamhost’s WebFTP application won’t even allow you to look inside of folders that don’t adhere to Linux file naming standards.
I agree that they SHOULD NOT be an issue. However, several Dreamhost reps told me specifically not to use spaces (and apostrophes) because they will cause problems.
(I moved this post from the CocoNuts - Help Needed! thread in the Collaboration section because I felt it might have been causing unnecessary noise there. You can find the precursor material to the following quotation there):
I have done that too, but not for everything. As I’ve posted around here before, Dreamhost can’t handle file names with spaces or a couple of other symbols in them, and I don’t have time or a desire to rename hundreds of files (you could A Better Finder Rename for speed, but that results in ugliness and costs money). I’ve just zipped a lot of things of for now, but that’s still a big waste of time. Also, someone had brought up to me the idea that I probably shouldn’t use this method for files associated with a non-disclosure agreement.
Well, I prefer to keep projects archived this way as a single file anyway. Rather than zipping, I use Disk Utility and create a disk image from the project folder using the encryption option, which takes care of the problem of somebody possibly snooping around in the files. For larger projects it might take a minute or so, but you can do other stuff while it’s processing.
I just looked into the disk image option. Is there any way to create an image based on exactly what you want to back up, instead of creating one of a certain size, and then moving files onto it?
