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Still facing problems (with the latest version) when creating new folders from within Admin section. Won't accept folder names with spaces. Message displayed “Use only alphanumeric symbols and "_" symbol in folder name“. Any Ideas ??

I think this is a normal behaviour... The name of the folder is the physical name of the folder on the server. It is then safer to forget the spaces and special characters. The displayed name of the folder (the folder name which is visible by the user) can be customized with the admin section (folder name).

Am I wrong ?

MacDo wrote:Am I wrong ?

I believe you are right, although pain is the expert on this. To avoid any character/encoding/server problems, we are trying to force users to create foldernames with no special characters, and no [space](which converts to %20 in urlencoding).

With the new admin, you can use TITLE to set the name you want to actually display for your folder, and the TITLE supports any characters and languages so there is nothing to loose!

For physical folder names, try to use basic characters(abcdefghijklmnopqrst123456789_), and try to avoid national characters(à¸à¦à¥!"# ¤%&/()=+^\à¤à¢à£ and so on...). From the admin, you can then use any characters to rename your folder in the TITLE field after selecting a folder.

mjau-mjau wrote:

MacDo wrote:Am I wrong ?

I believe you are right, although pain is the expert on this. To avoid any character/encoding/server problems, we are trying to force users to create foldernames with no special characters, and no [space](which converts to %20 in urlencoding).

With the new admin, you can use TITLE to set the name you want to actually display for your folder, and the TITLE supports any characters and languages so there is nothing to loose!

For physical folder names, try to use basic characters(abcdefghijklmnopqrst123456789_), and try to avoid national characters(à¸à¦à¥!"# ¤%&/()=+^\à¤à¢à£ and so on...). From the admin, you can then use any characters to rename your folder in the TITLE field after selecting a folder.

Good information about how to properly use the title field! Thank you!