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echo: rberrypi
to: COOS HAAK
from: DAVID
date: 2017-11-07 15:18:00
subject: Re: Etcher, Windows and n

On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 01:29:21 +0100, Coos Haak wrote:

> Op 6 Nov 2017 19:31:04 GMT schreef David:
>
>> On Sun, 05 Nov 2017 15:56:10 -0600, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/5/2017 03:42, David wrote:
>>>> First thing I didn't unzip it. I only tried that when Etcher failed
>>>> to access the archive (although it could select it).
>>>
>>> Does the directory name or file name have a percent sign, colon or
>>> semi-colon?  That's the only thing I found in the GitHub bugs for
>>> Etcher.
>>
>>
>> Image in Z:\Software\Raspberry Pi\Raspbian\2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch
>>
>> So unless the path name is too long......
>>
>> Z:\Software\Raspberry
>> Pi\Raspbian\2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch\2017-09-07-
>> raspbian-stretch.img
>>
>> Or the space is causing confusion (just noticed).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Dave R
>
> Leaving the space in, and putting double quotes around the string given
> to the program should work.
>
> groet Coos

It is a GUI so you select the file name by using a file browser.

Quotes would work on the command line.

Perhaps the software should quote the file name internally to cope?

Cheers


Dave R



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