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The NikonGear Office => Announcements => Topic started by: Andrea B. on June 02, 2016, 18:23:38

Title: Upload Filenames: No special characters, please!
Post by: Andrea B. on June 02, 2016, 18:23:38

Hi Everyone -

Recently there were a couple of incidents where a badly named photo file caused the Server software to generate a 500 Internal Server Error. The cause was the inclusion of special characters in an uploaded photo filename.

PLEASE DO NOT USE SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN YOUR PHOTO FILENAMES.
While they may be legal on your laptop, they may not be legal in the forum or server software. I have no way to know the exact list of forbidden special characters. You might find that some work OK in a filename.

Examples: 

• ~ ! ? |  \ /
  tilde, exclamation, question, bar, back slash, forward slash

• ' " ` ; : ,
  single quote (aka apostrophe), double quote, accent, semi-colon, colon, comma

• @ # $ % & ^ *
  at, number, dollar sign, percent, ampersand, hat, star

• [ ] { } ( ) < >
  brackets

Spaces are OK here on NG. You may encounter some problems with spaced filenames on some systems.
Dashes, underlines and dots are OK, of course.

Thank you -
Andrea B. as Boffin

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