list of illegal characters for mac files

I don't see anything in these upgrades that would change the FFS behavior: But in this case I just updated from FFS ver 11.3 to 11.9. Glad to hear that is not the problem (I hope). FFS complained that it could not delete certain files, but allowed me to ignore the problem. My problem first manifested when I was using FreeFileSync (FFS) to backup an EXT4 to a NTFS. Linux doesn't allow creation of a file with a forward slash, but thankfully it allows removing it both in Nemo and via the terminal rename command. But somehow I ended up with a half dozen files that included 2 forward slashes! So I guess my search script will include a search for forward slash. I was going to ask why the forward slash is not included here, but then I tried to create a file with a forward slash (on EXT4) and it is not allowed. Pax -rw -s '//_/gp' /source/path/ /destination/path/ I suspect there are more illegal characters than I have listed. How can I search an EXT4 partition for all NTFS 'illegal characters'? Maybe something like this: It pains me to give MS any credit at all, but I must in this case. It did create another directory that probably shouldn't have been created, but overall it worked good. It changed the offending filenames and would browse the drive. Oddly enough, after about 30 minutes it worked. So what was the solution? I saw on a website to use chkdsk /f f: in Windows. Probably Detox is to fix the name on the EXT4 partition before you copy over? I don't think it worked on ? or :, but it definitely did not work on //_. I installed Detox, but oddly that would not work either no matter what I did. It would say something like directory not found. Rmdir -r dir and rmdir -r filename would not work either. Of course I'm saying this for the NTFS drive. It would say something like file not found.

On Linux I could see the files, but not rename the files (remove the illegal characters), even with the terminal. Yeah, that last one is somewhat interesting.Īnyway, the files got there by FreeFileSync copying the files over from an EXT4 fixed drive on my computer.

List of illegal characters for mac files