No way around it that I know of Richard. We faced the same problem here. Thousands of appallingly named files - and you can only blame the Windows OS for ever allowing people to name them in that way. It's not just SharePoint that won't accept these files, it's any web based system. Try uploading them to an old-school site using FTP and you'll hit the same issues. Admittedly, SharePoint is even more unforgiving.
Your clients just need to understand this 'limitation' and re-learn how to name files properly. I unsuccessfully tried to enforce an 8 character limit on files and folders, even citing the maximum URL length etc. At the end of the day it was a compromise to 20 chars, dashes instead of spaces and no punctuation. It's a pity MOSS doesn't rename these on-the-fly by simply substituting the illegal characters with something else but you can use any of the migration utilities out there to do a regex on these. </rant> Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Ing Sent: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 4:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Uploading Files to SharePoint 2007 that contain Special Characters Hey OzMoss, I am trying to migrate a large 2003 SharePoint site collection to a 2007 SharePoint Site, and I'm running into the issue whereby I cant migrate a whole bunch of documents that contain special characters. (eg. +,%,&) It appears to exist fine within SPS 2003 and the windows environment, but if I try to upload files to SPS 2007 that have these characters it doesn't upload properly. In particular too, ZIP files that contain special characters do not open at all. I been searching the net and so far run into suggestions that the filenames should just be changed, but our customers require these characters. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards, Richard Ing NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Macquarie Group Limited or third parties. If you are not the intended recipient of this email you should not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on this e-mail or any attachments, and should destroy all copies of them. Macquarie Group Limited does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or any attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may not reflect the views or opinions of Macquarie Group Limited. ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: http://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
