I always use underscores.
On Feb 24, 2016 1:38 PM, "Bobby Johnson" <b...@brmemc.net> wrote:

> I have recently been struggling with a problem with media
> files. On many occasions I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to
> enter data into legacy. The problem I ran into deals with
> file names. As an example:
> Census - Bradley County, Tennessee - 1940 - John Doe
> is the name of a file I would use. The character between
> census and Bradley is a hyphen(ascii 45) as opposed to a
> dash(ascii 0150). Using Dragon to dictate this file name, I
> would use the word dash which would enter a space before and
> after the dash. In doing so everything seemed to work fine
> including the file sorting. However, when I backed up the
> media files and use the backup file to restore them on
> another computer I found many media files missing.
>
> I have discovered that when you zip a file with a dash(ascii
> 0150) and then unzip the file the dash is returned as a
> hyphen. Therefore the file name has changed and LFT cannot
> find this media file.
>
> This is a warning for anyone who might for any reason do a
> backup with a file name that contains a dash.
>
>
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