A valid file name cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / :*?”<> |

Prior to 8.5.1 you could add file resources to your application. To have a better overwiew, you could rename your file resources and add slashes to the filename.

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In DDE 8.51 this seems no longer to be possible. When you try to rename the recource directly in the view, a friendly message tells you that you are not allowed to use characters like slashes and things loke that.

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The same error message occurs, when you do a rename via the “Rename” dialog ( press F2 or right-click the resource in the outline and select the rename option )

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All your changes are discarded after you close the message boxes.

But there is still a “backdoor” to accomplish the aim. Renaming the file in the properties also raises the error.

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But when you close the message box, your changes are accepted.

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3 thoughts on “A valid file name cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / :*?”<> |”

  2. Hi Ulrich!

    With 8.5.1 we changed using the slash in the element name to the element alias. There is no “error” message.

    I think it’s nescessary to follow the new IBM “restriction” because of the way they store file elements in the vfs.

    — René

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