BUG: Folder with special characters

[e.eis]

Hi. I've found a "little" BUG:
The engine cannot indexing the content of folders with this special character: '

Example1: My Folder's

The directory is renamed in: My Folder&#39s
...as a result the entire content of this directory is unavailable!


(Is likely to happen with other symbols)

[David (PassMark)]

I did a test with the latest beta releases, 0.99i and didn't see any problem.

Here is part of the log.

06:17:10 - Start indexing (offline mode) at Sat Sep 17 06:17:10 2011
06:17:10 - Maximum number of files: 35
06:17:10 - Maximum file size: 321652736
06:17:10 - Will scan files with extensions
06:17:10 - .pst
06:17:10 - .msg
<snip>
06:17:10 - .psd
06:17:10 - Search root directory: C:\temp\TEstf
06:17:10 - [INDEXED] Indexing extracted text from binary file C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\11-2_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_enu.exe
06:17:15 - [PLUGIN] Processing image file C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\2dneg.png
06:17:16 - [INDEXED] Indexing C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\2dneg.png
06:17:16 - [PLUGIN] Processing Office 2007 file C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\31May10 Draft - PassMark Software - Fast and Effective Security for Business.docx
06:17:16 - [INDEXED] Indexing C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\31May10 Draft - PassMark Software - Fast and Effective Security for Business.docx
06:17:16 - [PLUGIN] Processing image file C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\673075.JPG
06:17:16 - [INDEXED] Indexing C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\673075.JPG
06:17:16 - [INDEXED] Indexing C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\after.txt
06:17:16 - [PLUGIN] Processing PDF file C:\temp\TEstf\My Folder's\antivirus_11-performance-testing-ed2.pdf
<snip>
06:17:19 - Indexing completed at Sat Sep 17 06:17:19 2011
06:17:19 - INDEX SUMMARY
06:17:19 - Files indexed: 21
06:17:19 - Files skipped: 1
06:17:19 - Files filtered: 0
06:17:19 - Files downloaded: 0
06:17:19 - Unique words found: 7847
06:17:19 - Variant words found: 6978
06:17:19 - Total words found: 44604
06:17:19 - Avg. unique words per page: 373.67
06:17:19 - Avg. words per page: 2124
06:17:19 - Start index time: 06:17:10 (2011/09/17)
06:17:19 - Elapsed index time: 00:00:09
06:17:19 - Peak physical memory used: 124 MB
06:17:19 - Peak virtual memory used: 1076 MB
06:17:19 - Errors: 0
06:17:19 - Total bytes scanned/downloaded: 17044061
06:17:19 - File extensions:
<snip>
06:17:19 - [FILEIO] Successfully created all required files

My guess is that there wasn't anything in your folder to index. But can you E-mail us your log file so we take a look. If you right click in the log window, you can select "Save to File".

[David (PassMark)]

Just re-reading your post & thinking about this more.

There is no problem with the indexing of the folder as pointed out above. There is also no problem with the searching. But there is a problem when you go to open the file from the search index module. At this point the folder name has been translated into a URL.

So you are correct. There is a bug opening files in OSF in the search index folder when the files are in folders with special characters.
All the files are still indexed and searchable, but you'll need to browse to the file to open it in Windows Explorer rather than opening it directly in OSF.

We'll fix this up for the next patch release.

[e.eis]

Thanks ^_^