First off, neither Ron nor I said it was an MS restriction. Secondly, MS doesn't say a lot of things that are nonetheless good ideas.
For the rest of the contributors -- have you noticed the pattern between those of us who say "not a good idea"? :) Cheryl Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > It's a bug. Microsoft declares only the following characters as reserved > characters: \ / : * ? "< > | > > Note that the apostrophe is NOT a reserved character. Therefore it is a > legitimate character in the use of a windows filename. It works perfectly > well on servers running a Windows, Linux, Android, and BSD operating systems. > The only place in the entire galaxy that it does not work well is within > Legacy. For someone to state that its use is not a recommended practice > apparently means only within the confines of what the Legacy programmers > allowed. With that being said and realizing that the programmers took > shortcuts means that you may need to work within their system of practices. > > Brian in CA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bobby Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 8:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Apostrophe in Filenames > > Thanks Ron. I appreciate your view. Here is what I don't like about not > using the proper spelling of a name. It requires you to remember to type it > one way for this use and another for way for other uses. It begs for > mistakes. > I hope Legacy sees the need to fix this as well as another problem in this > same area. These arrows only work when the picture or document is attached > to the individual or an individual's event. If it is attached to a source > detail it will not find the person using it. Yet the arrows are available > unlike when the picture is not attached. > > Bobby > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Apostrophe in Filenames > > Bobby, > > I never said that it was. What I did say was "that for absolute safety ....". > One should always take into consideration that programmers may use codes, > other than the ones which I quoted, in other ways, but using only the ones > which I quoted is safe. > > "IMO" In My Opinion > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
