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| - | # Incompatible Characters | + | # File Naming Conventions / Incompatible Characters |
| - | Don' | + | The File Fabric covers a myriad of storage solution in addition to being able to be presented on files systems on a multitude of Operating Systems. There is no guarantee that naming conventions from back-end storage solutions will be honoured on end user file systems. |
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| + | Generally you should not name your files or folders with the following characters: | ||
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| Files or folders that begin with a period will meta-sync properly but Mac, Linux, Windows operating systems may regard them as system files and hide them automatically. You may not be able to see them without modifying advanced settings on your PC. | Files or folders that begin with a period will meta-sync properly but Mac, Linux, Windows operating systems may regard them as system files and hide them automatically. You may not be able to see them without modifying advanced settings on your PC. | ||
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| + | Also please be aware of other character issues that are not immediately obvious but can cause conflicts or issues such as trailing spaces in directory names for example. | ||
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| + | Also be aware of using characters that are not generally considered best practice, such as tildes(~)for example, which should not really be used in a file / folder, as on many file systems a file/folder name may contain a tilde within each component of the name that is too long to comply with normal naming rules. | ||
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