File can't be deleted from via web interface, crashes when deleted from device

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start File Transfer server
2. Type 192.168.1.3:8000 in Safari browser (on mac)
3. Go down the list to one of my OWN stories.
4. Hit REMOVE. Stuff appears to happen.
5. Refresh page
6. Story NOT deleted.
7. Go to Frotz on iPod Touch. Story is still there.

What is the expected output or behavior?  What do you see instead?
I expect the stories I Remove to be gone.

What version of Frotz are you using?
1.4.1
1.4

What version of iPhone/iPod Touch OS? (2.2.1, 3.0, 3.1.2, etc.)
3.1.3 (7318)

What device model are you using (iPod Touch 2nd gen, iPhone 3G, etc.)
iPod Touch model MA623LL

Please provide any additional information below.
That's it. The stories I'm trying to delete are stories I wrote, and I have new 
versions I would like to upload to the iPod. But every time I remove the story, 
nothing actually happens.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by s...@huxter.org on 2 Aug 2010 at 3:07

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More info: I can also no longer ADD stories. I added a story called "The 
Promise 30.glorb" and it would not add. I have added stories in the past 
without issue. Not for some months, however.

Original comment by s...@huxter.org on 2 Aug 2010 at 3:16

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Sorry. Not that it probably matters, but the story I tried uploading was "The 
Promise 30.gblorb, not .glorb. It is possible that Frotz does not support glorb 
files. But I'm not sure that's true, because I can't add OR delete these 
stories from my list.

Original comment by s...@huxter.org on 2 Aug 2010 at 3:18

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Hi Sean,

I'm afraid Frotz does not support .gblorb or .glulx stories, only zblorb or .z# 
(zmachine) stories, although I do plan on adding support in the future.

Nobody's reported problems deleting stories with the web interface before...  
I'll look into it.

Is it only gblorb stories that have problems being deleted, or is it any story, 
period?  Have you tried rebooting the device since the problem started 
happening?  Does the problem happen if you use ftp instead of the web interface.

FYI, you can also delete stories from the Frotz Story List screen.   Just use 
the standard swipe gesture.  (If you're not playing any active stories, there's 
an edit button instead of "Now Playing" that lets you delete multiple stories 
as well, but because of autosave it's rare that you're in that state.)  Please 
let me know if that works as well.

Lastly, could your device be simply out of storage space?

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2010 at 3:29

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Bueller?  Bueller?

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2010 at 1:57

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I cannot reproduce this.  Closing due to lack of feedback.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2010 at 6:12

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It may be just non-supported file formats. I was able to delete .z* files that 
I know work.

I hope you do support GLULX. Larger stories these days just can't fit into the 
.z* format.

Sean.
(Was away on vacation.)

Original comment by s...@huxter.org on 29 Aug 2010 at 11:29

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Hi Sean,

I've updated the Frotz web interface to explicitly warn you about files with 
unsupported file extensions and let you delete them.
I'll let you know when I add glulx support.  Andew Plotkin has given me 
permission to use his engine, but porting the windowing interface will be the 
harder part.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2010 at 4:22

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I've had the same problem deleting .z5 files from the Web interface.  They just 
won't budge.

Also, when trying to delete the files from the device, it crashes.

Running v1.5 on iPad v4.2.1

Original comment by laj...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 3:58

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Reopening this issue since it was reported against 1.5 and with standard 
extensions.

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 5:38

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Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2010 at 5:39

• Changed title: _File can't be deleted from via web interface, crashes when deleted from device _

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Turns out the issue here was actually filenames with spaces in them.  The 
spaces were getting converted to %20's, and thus it wasn't correctly 
finding/deleting the actual filename.

This problem is now fixed in 1.5.1.   

(I did not reproduce the problem you mentioned adding stories, however... if 
it's still occurring for you, please file a new issue report just for it.)

Original comment by spath...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2011 at 9:44

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