[Using Sakai] Valid file names

Steve Swinsburg steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
Sun Jan 19 14:51:25 PST 2014


What's an example filename?

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On 19/01/2014 3:24 PM, "Gregory Guthrie" <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> Sakai allows one to create files and folders in Resources with special
> characters in them which make them illegal to access or download in
> Windows.
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> I am not sure about Macintosh, but I think that such illegal and
> meta-characters are problematic also in Linux.
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> Shouldn’t Sakai disallow such characters in file and folder names, at
> least when created through its tools? If a user uses WebDav direct access
> to the file system, then I’m not sure how Sakai could enforce this.
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> (We had a faculty create such, and it took him some time to get the error
> reports from students and find the problem.)
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