SharePoint Illegal Characters
By vijay on Apr 06, 2011 with Comments 0
Today we started to bring in the documents for our new department and found lot of errors trying to move the folders and the documents to SharePoint. This is due to the Illegal characters in the naming conventions.
Characters that can’t or shouldn’t be used in File, folder and site names.
~ # % & * { } \ : < > ? / + | ” . _
Notes:
- Period can’t be used consecutively in the middle of a name or at the end
- Underscore shouldn’t be used at the start of any name
- Spaces are encoded as %20 (3 characters) and count to the 240 character Web-DAV file length limit
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