I am getting this error: Caught non-retryable exception while listing file:///home/backups/html/: CommandException: Invalid Unicode path encountered (u'/home/backups/499322._425050_.can._R\xe9 sum\xe9 - Jeremy Smith.pdf'). gsutil cannot proceed with such files present. Please remove or rename this file and try again. NOTE: the path printed above replaces the problematic characters with a hex- encoded printable representation. For more details (including how to convert to a gsutil-compatible encoding) see `gsutil help encoding`. The filename is; 499322._425050_.can._Résumé - Jeremy Smith.pdf # convmv -r -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 499322._425050_.can._Résumé\ -\ Jeremy\ Smith.pdf Skipping, already UTF-8: 499322._425050_.can._Résumé - Jeremy Smith.pdf I am confused here - the convmv says its UTF-8 already but gsutil throws the error. Using the convmv --nosmart flag screws up the file name. Can anyone shed light on this? I have about 1 mil files and I don't want to rename them one by one each time I get an error. Thanks Piers