As both Ron and Cheryl have mentioned, their own personal feelings are that for overall safety, it is better to avoid using some characters that potentially could be misinterpreted.
What some may not understand, is to step back and realize that MAYBE, SOMEDAY your data MAYBE processed thru some program / software that POSSIBLY may have it's own little quirk (That's not a bug, but intentional by that software programmers) There are a lot of IF's and Maybe's, but don't blame the software or the resulting data. Like Cheryl, My own PERSONAL feeling is that I am going to stick to using only abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890_ whenever I create any file name so that, if, by chance, I run my data thru, a software that may misinterpret that data. My own pet peeve is the data where a first name has somehow gotten moved from the given name field into the surname field. I don't know whose software/ gedcom process did that, but there sure was a lot of it years ago. Thank G, I don't see it as often any more. Other listers here should not see this as an argument or attack on the way YOU manage YOUR data, but just as advice to consider. Thanks Jay On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bobby Johnson > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Apostrophe in Filenames > > Ron and Cheryl, > The apostrophe is NOT one of the reserved characters listed on Microsoft's > list of reserved characters. It works well in all parts of Legacy except > in > this one place and it works well with all other programs. It even sorts > properly. It SHOULD work in picture center as well but it doesn't. I > think > it is a bug. > > Bobby > > -----Original Message----- > From: singhals [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 10:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Apostrophe in Filenames > > Bobby Johnson wrote: > > I recently decided to clean up my multimedia filenames so that my > > picture files and document files were consistent. I, like most, use > > names of people in pictures and most documents as part of the > > filename. I was using the Picture Center to accomplish this task. > > The problem I ran into was using an apostrophe in names like > > O'Donnell. If I had a group photo, I would attach the photo to each > > of the individuals in the photo after editing the filename using the > > rename button. I would then use the blue navigation arrows near the > > bottom of the right panel(next/previous person using picture) to check > > my work. It worked great until I had a filename that contained > > O'Donnell. In this case when I clicked on either arrow the program > > would not react. I got no error message and no change in the highlighted > > individual. If I deleted the apostrophe the arrows functioned properly. > > I have submitted this as a bug. > > It's not a bug, though. > > If you want to be sure your file-name survives a move from one computer to > another or from you to me, never use anything in the file name other than > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890_ > > And IMO it's safest to put the unique info in the first 7 spaces. > > NOT that I follow that these days, but I'm sure I'll regret not doing it > sooner or later. > > Cheryl > > > > > 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 > > > 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
