[LON-CAPA-users] dots in file names not allowed?

[James Sullivan]

Okay, so now I'm in a bit of a pickle. Before I knew of this convention I
uploaded a zip file containing lots of questions numbered like
question.N.problem where "N" runs from 1 to ~750. When I unpacked the zip
file there was no warning or error messages. So now I have a directory full
of questions that I seem to be unable to delete, edit, etc. 

It complains that I do not have authoring privileges whenever I try to do
anything to file (view, edit, etc.). 
Suggestions for how to delete all these files?

Thanks,
Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org 
> [mailto:lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of 
> Gerd Kortemeyer
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 10:28 AM
> To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] dots in file names not allowed?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It's the number right before the extension that causes the problem.  
> The syntax
> 
>   foo.N.problem
> 
> is reserved for the Nth version of that problem.
> 
> Using other stuff is fine, like
> 
>   foo.bar.problem
> 
> works.
> 
> - Gerd.
> 
> On Dec 4, 2006, at 10:18 AM, James Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > Is there a restriction that does not allow the use of dots (".") in 
> > file names?
> >
> >
> >
> > For example, "question.1.problem" seems to cause trouble.
> >
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jay
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> LON-CAPA-users mailing list
> LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org
> http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
>