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filenames with colon ":" inside don't sync with windows

majid_2k2, July 10, 2011 07:36

Notebooks files with colon ":" in their filename (exampe ToDo:.txt, Laundry:.txt) sync to dropbox website, but not to windows..
You should modify the code that autmatically makes the first line of a file the default filename, to ignore any colon's so avoid this sync issue happening :-)

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Alfons Schmid, July 11, 2011 07:48

Hi,

this is a limitation that affects Windows only, as the colon is one of the "forbidden" filename characters (we point this out several times on our website and in the documentation). The reason we do not generally escape or replace this character is that the colon is perfectly valid on all other systems... (This is different with the "/" character, which is illegal on all file systems, and so Notebooks replaces it)

Best,
Alfons





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