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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
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