{"id":3595,"date":"2015-08-18T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolphin.com\/help\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2020-12-15T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T14:01:41","slug":"characters-disallowed-in-file-or-folder-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolphin.com\/help\/administration-server\/zoom-server\/server-faq\/characters-disallowed-in-file-or-folder-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Characters Disallowed in File or Folder Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Zoom Web Management Console allows administrator to configure  a set of characters as illegal or disallowed in file or folder name. Import\/Ingest with files with such names will fail. This list can be customized however read the caveats that apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major consideration for disallowed characters in file is the cross-platform access of files across disparate operation systems.<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Client OS caveat:<\/h4>\n

By default the set of invalid characters defaults to the ones that Mac, Linux & Windows OS do not allow in a path name. This ensures that if a path in the Zoom repository gets checked out on any client OS, creating a working copy file\/folder of that name will work. Even though Zoom with Unicode support built-in can handle any file name character set, built-in OS applications like Windows Explorer, MacOS Finder will have issues.<\/p>\n

Server OS caveat:<\/h4>\n

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If services like Preview server, Archive manager, Auto Checkout run on an OS that disallows certain characters, ingesting these assets from a client OS that does allow such characters will cause file access to fail on the DAM server. Since Zoom allows range of OS deployment options for client & server, the disallowed character list must take this into account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The path name validation happens on individual characters, prefixes and suffixes. You can edit the default settings through the Server Control Panel’s repository “Repository Settings” menu.<\/p>\n

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Disallowed Characters<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Any character included in the above field will be disallowed in any new paths being created in the repository. This list is simply a list, and is NOT comma-separated. (If you include a comma in the list, it will be treated as an invalid character in path names)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For example, if the character “*” is in this list, then a path name like “Tulips * Roses.jpg” will be disallowed from import \/ rename operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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