Re: Raname Files

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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2007 12:28:25 -0500, Bob I <birelan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Ken Blake, MVP wrote:


Only the following punctuation marks are not permitted in file names:
\ / ? : * " > < |

See
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/5bc67cea-5901-4563-b800-16af596dffb61033.mspx#EAD

or http://tinyurl.com/2wn58s

In the old days of 8.3 file names, periods were permitted only to
separate the extension from the main part of the file name. However
today, multiple periods are permitted and a name like
mybook.chapter1.doc *is* permitted.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Yes, but using "punctuation" in file and folder names can result in some pretty odd errors in third party programs. Especially the "'" , "," and ".".




Perhaps so, but then those are poorly-written programs that don't
follow the Windows standards.

I don't generally use such characters in file names, so I've never run
into the errors you mention. Out of curiosity, can you be more
specific as to what those "pretty odd errors" are, and in what
third-party programs they occur? Thanks.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Latest episode I remember is a "maintenance scheduling" program (MP2 from Datastream) and the users were linking to external documents. They had used some "creative" naming in the folders and the filenames. They were successful in making the links, but then in use it would throw a file not found error. At first I thought they were exceeding the 255 char limit, but ended up being the punctuation from the comma.
The "apostrophe" was in a file name and caused a hyperlink to not work in Access (seems it was 2000).
And the extra period caused another program to pass a truncated filename to the operating system for opening in the viewer. Another maintenance tracking program. Although since it was a 16 bit program, it was a tad old.


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