Recently we discovered that our tool that creates digital archives (copies of online project rooms) had a couple of minor bugs, which we are currently fixing. They turned up on account of the fact that linux file systems can hack almost anything, whereas Windows’ file and folder name conventions are prehistoric – think Win 3.1.

Seat belts fastened? Did you know that you cannot have folder names with a trailing space? Dots “.” at the end of file names aren’t permitted, either. Same for any \/*<>?:”| chars in your file/folder names. To top it up, the maximum path length permitted is 255 characters. >> more…