Some files with special characters in file names do not sync

[jernst]

Expected behaviour

File sync!

Actual behaviour

Affected files are shown with a red X in the Finder, and not sync'd.

Steps to reproduce

• Create a file with an unsupported character in the file name.
• Easiest: vcf files created by Apple Address Book, which sometimes have those characters in it -- perhaps from a business card scanning program. This is how I came across it. But given than Apple supports those files, Nextcloud should.
• Example file names:
  • Foo Bar\;PH.D..vcf
  • Foo Bar\, MS.vcf
  • American express\ntravelers checks.vcf

Client configuration

Client version: 2.6.1stable

Operating system:
macOS

Server configuration

UBOS Linux (not that it should matter)

[warnerbryce]

It’s normal.
Nextcloud sync files for Linux / Windows / OS X and every OS have it’s folder and files restrictions.
You can’t put a / or \ in a folder name in Windows.
The nextcloud sync client will halt and throw error when it detect this kind of name in file or folder.

[jernst]

Of course mapping would be required. Just like for so many other situations, like Windows file names on DOS filesystems, or colons on MacOS before OSX, or cygwin, or OSX Finder view vs filesystem view etc. This is not a new problem and IMHO Nextcloud should solve it similarly to how it has been solved before in other contexts.

[er-vin]

Duplicate of #464 it seems