Word file naming issue when copying to Samba shares

Jan 20, '03 08:48:58AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I ran into a little gotcha when copying some Word documents to a Samba share on my FreeBSD box. I'd copy the documents, the icons would appear in the destination window, then they'd quickly disappear. As it turns out, the first line of each document was the title and included an em-dash, thanks to Word's AutoCorrect feature. When I saved the document, I accepted the default filename, which meant that there was an em-dash in the name instead of a hyphen.

Of course, this isn't immediately obvious in Finder. This caused is what caused the problem when copying a file to a Samba share. The fix is to rename the file and replace the em-dash with a hyphen.

I'm just submitting this one because I spent a bunch of time debugging such an obscure problem. Perhaps it'll save someone else the aggravation.

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