[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkptNW1PzrVjYlJWP_9e499uH0mjnBV6GQ"
 nickname="Christian"
 subject="comment 4"
 date="2013-07-19T19:00:23Z"
 content="""
So it is probably not only an assumption. After fixing the filenames with a script from

http://askubuntu.com/questions/113188/character-encoding-problem-with-filenames-find-broken-filenames

The watcher thread did survive, and the assistant is syncing just fine.
"""]]