Re: [Evolution-hackers] Colon is a show-stopper.

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com> wrote:

On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 11:01 -0400, Mark Filipak wrote:

> Here is a typical message file:
>
> ~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/cur/1365462216.8388_1.Iris:2,S
>
> Can I persuade Evolution to use some other character in lieu of the colon? This
> is very important to me... it's a show-stopper.
>
> Thanks - Mark Filipak.

why is it a showstopper?

He is probably copying them to, or using a network share of an NTFS filesystem. The colon is reserved for drive letter separation and possibly alternate data streams, if those are enabled.

Some of the file copy tools I use like WinSCP convert colons to %3A when naming the file. This works as long as you have it set to do the conversion both to and from consistently and don't change it.