I have over 1500 files that are showing up as ‘not allowed’ because of invalid characters. I understand many valid characters for cloud storage objects are invalid for windows filesystem. However, the solution of just skipping those files is inadequate and frustrating. It would take me forever to go through and rename each of those files by hand to remove any invalid characters (quotes, vertical bar, question mark etc.) If I remember correctly Google Drive simply mapped invalid characters to safe characters on the target operating system but stored the original name in metadata to maintain the appropriate association between the objects. Even an option that would allow me to select that mode if the user preferred would be nice!

We’ve released a new version that handles illegal characters on systems that do not allow them. More information here: [image] Desktop Release (09-10-2020) Win v.6694 / Mac v.6791 Release Notes Hi odrive crew, Here’s another desktop sync update with Backup improvements and other goodies. Win v.6694 / Mac v.6791: Better illegal character handling. Allows odrive to display files which exist on remote storage but may have characters that are not allowed by the OS on your local computer. Characters that are not allowed on the local system will be converted to unicode equivalents : = ： (\uFF1A) / = ／ (\uFF0F) \ = ＼ (\uFF3C) * = ＊ (\uFF0A) ? = ？ (\uFF1F) " = ＂ (\uFF02) < = ＜ (\uFF1C) > …

Automatic character substitution for illegal characters

Feature Requests

Tony September 11, 2020, 5:29am 13

We’ve released a new version that handles illegal characters on systems that do not allow them. More information here: