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boredazfcuk / docker-icloudpd

An Alpine Linux container for the iCloud Photos Downloader command line utility
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Sync Failure with iCloudpd When Filenames Contain Leading Spaces #516

Closed johndlloyd closed 2 months ago

johndlloyd commented 4 months ago

Summary: iCloud Photo Downloader (icloudpd) fails to sync files when filenames contain leading spaces. This results in the application not detecting new files for synchronization.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Have a photo in the iCloud library with a leading space in the filename (e.g., " FileName.jpg").
  2. Run icloudpd to sync photos.
  3. Observe that icloudpd completes the sync process but reports "No new files detected."

Expected Behavior: icloudpd should successfully sync files from iCloud, including those with leading spaces in their filenames. Actual Behavior: icloudpd fails to detect and sync files with leading spaces in their filenames, resulting in a message indicating no new files were detected.

Frequency: Always when files with leading spaces are present in the iCloud library.

boredazfcuk commented 2 months ago

Windows doesn't support saving something with those filenames: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/shell-experience/file-folder-name-whitespace-characters, and to be honest, I wholeheartedly agree with it. Users running this container in Docker Desktop on Windows are going to have a bad time if something like that is supported. Also, if they're downloading them onto a NAS device, then accessing them from a Windows device.