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  • Hi, as a matter of fact, most of the downloaded file names used to have a ? followed by a query string, making it impossile to copy the files over to the windows partition. Using the --restrict-file-names=windows option solved the problem by using an @ instead of the ? character, allowing most of the files to be copied to the partition, but the problems with copying some of the files still persisted as pointed out in my post. I've tried zipping the files, copying over the zipped folder to the mounted partition, and extracting the files there. Commented Dec 2, 2014 at 12:57
  • Once extracted with 7-Zip, all files were extracted successfully with no errors, although some of the characters are really weired-looking (and non-alphabetical it seems). I've updated my post to display the folder with the unzipped filenames. The problem indeed seems to be with the VirtualBox share folder mount type vboxsf, command: sudo mount -t vboxsf src dst. Regards. Thanks. Commented Dec 2, 2014 at 13:01
  • @slm Small typo sighted: must be --restric**t** ... Unfortunately due to the (IMO most idiotic) rule on SE that you may only fix typos if you also edit something else (>=6 char limit), I can't fix it myself, as there is really nothing else that needs to be altered. Commented Jun 24, 2015 at 18:24
  • @syntaxerror - thanks, fixed. Yes that has annoyed me many times as well.it Commented Jun 25, 2015 at 1:06