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Barry Karas

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Jun 1, 2006, 5:05:06 PM6/1/06
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The My Documents folder does not allow colons [punctuation marks (":")].
This probably applies to other folders too. Since the colon is a common
punctuation mark (at least in my writing), how can I make the folders accept
it?

Thank you,

Barry Karas


Callmark1

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Jun 1, 2006, 7:54:02 PM6/1/06
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Barry:

Good for you for caring about proper punctuation. However, for historical
reasons, certain characters are not allowed in file names. Disallowed
characters are:

back slash \

forward slash /

question mark ?

asterisk *

left "arrow" <

right "arrow" >

bar |

Quote mark "

characters made by holding down the CTRL key are disallowed too.

and of course, these are never allowed: ۝ ۞ ۩ Ψ

However, unlike older file systems which allowed less than a dozen
characters, NFTS file systems allow up to 255 characters in a file name. So
you can still accurately describe just about any file. this entire post
might fit into a file name.

Happy punctuating!!

Mark

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