It's true.  OSX replaces them with ":" I'm imagining that Win replaces them
with the "-" What's really fun is to name a file or folder "."�It will
disappear.


Am 29.07.2004 1:39 Uhr, schrieb: "Johannes Gebauer"
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> On 29.07.2004 9:58 Uhr, Giovanni Andreani wrote
> 
>> I tried to save a Finale's file naming it : 1/4 note.mus
>> Once saved, the slash "/" symbol is substituted by the minus "-" symbol.
>> Does anybody knows why this happens? Is it a system correction? Or is it
>> Finale that makes the change?
> 
> Slashes are not allowed in filenames, they are placeholders for folder
> structures in the file system.
> 
> I think in OS 9 they may have been allowed, it was the ":" that was used for
> folders instead.
> 
> Johannes



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