Document importer doesn't find certain files

[aaaailuj]

I was trying to move from paperless-ngx on my Mac to a fresh installation on an Ubuntu machine. I made an export using the document_exporter on my mac, copied it to the Ubuntu machine into the export folder, and tried to run the importer using the command

docker-compose exec webserver document_importer ../export

I got the error

CommandError: The manifest file refers to "<my file name including spaces and umlauts (ü)>" which does not appear to be in the source directory.

However, when I checked, this file does exist in the source directory. I am wondering if there's an issue with the file name or something else. My file name has spaces in it and characters like Ä, Ü and Ö. Could these be causing the problem?

I would really appreciate if anyone could help me out here!

[stumpylog]

Unicode can have characters which look the same, but are not the same. It's a joy. Just rename the files to what the manifest refers to it as. There's nothing else we're able to do

[aaaailuj]

Hi @stumpylog, thanks for the quick answer. I went back through all of my files and removed all of the umlauts in their titles on my old instance, re-exported, imported, and tada, it works.

I think this is a bug though, as the umlauts were added as part of the document titles by me, and then written into the file names and manifest.json by paperless, but I guess it doesn't write the umlauts the same in the file names as in the manifest.json.

Also while searching for more info on this i found some related issues: #4485 and #5588

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