Hi, We have been through this many times before. RW servers all allow files (and folders or directories) with spaces in their names to be uploaded. (numerous examples available on request) Users, including the person doing the upload, may subsequently have difficulties *referring* to those files and thus be led to believe that they did not get uploaded (but they did!). Spaces and other /special characters/ in filenames must be coded in the referring URLs by what is known as *percent* encoding, e.g where a space is represented as %20 (20 being the ASCII code for a space). This applies to all referring URLs, including links (A tags) from other pages. -R. Judy Florian wrote: > On 8/22/07, W. David Samuelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> it's not sometimes. It does not allow the space in file names at all. >> > > > I said sometimes because, well, *some* files HAVE slipped through with > spaces. BUT then, on another upload, RW blocks and gives a certain code > (I believe 553) that I've learned means "go check file names for spaces, > check for unallowed file types" > > But after another Lister was doing self "tests" of whether spaces and > MiXedCase would upload, I looked carefully at my own freepages and yes, > indeed, *some* files did slip through *sometimes* with a space, MiXedCase, > and on one file it let a zip file through. Although this is only my > observation, I find more *.txt files with a space get through than spaces in > *.htm / html file names. (Sometimes I put template code or some info in a > txt. Usually I delete from MyWebs. But they got back into MyWebs on my PC > when I used my External Drive BackUp to reload my PC after I got a new > computer-- and when I connected to my website, those txt's uploaded. So > those are the main files with spaces in their names that *sometimes* do > upload. Other times, RW won't let those same txt ones at all.) > > Judy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/ 480 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 117,600+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: [email protected] Life goes on, having nowhere else to go. -Dianne Ackerman