Hello,

one of our scientists tried to sync files with a colon in the filename. This 
failed with an "Invalid characters" comment in the sync log. I know that colons 
were a no-no in file paths on Mac operating systems before MacOS X as the colon 
was used as a path separator. However, as far as I know, this is history and 
the colon (much as a bunch of other "special" characters including "!", "&", 
"?" or, in particular " " which I would not use in my own work) traditionally 
makes life unnecessarily difficult when scripting on Unix - but it is 
technically possible to use on all modern file systems (though, again, probably 
not advisable). But maybe there is a technical reason to forbid colons in file 
names that I am not aware of?

Warm regards,
 Stefan
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Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
Head of IT group
Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
Gleueler Str. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
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