Unsupported characters in file names.

[Collin Mariner]

Mac OSX has this handy home directory backup utility that runs every time a
user logs in. It synchronizes a persons desktop, documents, pictures etc. to
a share.

In my case I back these up to a Windows 2003 Server.

In Office 2004 there were about 5 files that have characters in their file
names that are not supported by Windows Operating system, thus corrupting
the file when it copied to the server.

In 2008 there are now over 30. Would it be possible to NOT use unsupported
(by Windows) characters in these filenames?

Here are 2 examples, the first is a period at the end of the file and the
second is a backslash.

User/documents/microsoft User Data/Entourage script menu Items/about this
menu...
User/documents/microsoft User Data/Entourage script menu Items/Create Task
from Message\CT

There are many more with backslashes in 2008 under each application¹s scrip
menu items directory under Microsoft user data directory in the user¹s
documents folder.

To resolve these issues, we can/have to go in and rename all files with
unsupported characters in their file name on every machine/install. Only
then will the home directory back up work.

Just my 2 cents but I think it would save a lot of people time to have these
characters changed/removed.

Thanks in advance!
Collin

 

[Diane Ross]

Here are 2 examples, the first is a period at the end of the file and the
second is a backslash.

User/documents/microsoft User Data/Entourage script menu Items/about this
menu...
User/documents/microsoft User Data/Entourage script menu Items/Create Task
from Message\CT

There are many more with backslashes in 2008 under each application¹s scrip
menu items directory under Microsoft user data directory in the user¹s
documents folder.

The backslash is the only way to add an AppleScript shortcut to a script.
You can delete all shortcuts if this is a problem for you.

More info on how-to add a shortcut to a script:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html>