Re: [ARSCLIST] Underscore in file names

[Alex Hartov <alex.hartov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I know of a good reason to eliminate spaces & other odd characters  
and it has to do with how various OSes and programs handle them.   
Although this is improving, there are still many instances when a  
space, or other characters will create problems.  I know of  
situations having to do with our online audio archive where the  
software behind the online database and streaming will behave  
strangely.  Sometimes it acts as if the file does not exist or it  
gets confused in other ways.  The result from a user's perspective is  
that a track will not play or a scan will not be properly displayed.   
As a result, I have instituted a simple rule and wrote utility  
programs to enforce them:

A file name can ONLY contain characters (upper & lower case are  
allowed), numbers and underscores.  Anything else (apostrophes,  
colons, semicolons, spaces etc.) gets replaced by an underscore.

This policy has eliminated all the problems we were having early on  
with streaming files & other html/php/FileMaker weird behavior.

All the best

Alex Hartov



On Sep 4, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Richard L. Hess wrote:

> > For those of you using computer files for archiving, do you use  
> > space bar spaces in your file names or underscores?  Is there a  
> > reason to avoid space bar spaces in file names?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin