Special Characters in sharepoint

Question

_{Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:18 AM}

Goodmorning,

As you probably know there are some characters you cant use when you create a site or a document. At work I have to upload lots of documents at the same time and I dont have time to scan each document for these special characters. To resolve this problem I currently use a rename tool, but this tool isn't easy to use.

Is there a way to make SharePoint accept these characters?

Thank you,

Greetings Leon

All replies (1)

_{Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:16 AM ✅Answered}

This is not possible.

why?
Because for example in url's they mean something, like the characters ? and /
For the filnames, the characters are reserved characters in urls

The only option I see is to rename all the documents.

You can also rename the files with a batch file, more information:

• http://www.howtogeek.com/111859/how-to-batch-rename-files-in-windows-4-ways-to-rename-multiple-files/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3808001/how-do-i-create-batch-file-to-rename-large-number-of-files-in-a-folder

FYI:

SharePoint users are aware of the following invalid characters:

• Site  Names
  • Do not use the  following: | # { } % & <TAB>" ~ + \ / : * ? " < >
  • Do not start a  site name, subsite name, or a site group name with an underscore (_) or with the  period character.
  • I recommend that  you do not use an underscore or a period.  While it is possible, there are some  caveats, such as:
    • You cannot use  the period character consecutively in the middle of a site name
    • You cannot use  the period character at the end of a site name
• Folder Names and  File Names
  • Do not use: " # %  & * : < > ? \ / { | } ~
  • File names cannot  be longer than 128 characters
  • Do not use the  period character consecutively in the middle of a file name.  For example,  "file..name.docx" is invalid.
  • You cannot use  the period character at the end of a file name
  • You cannot start  a file name with the period character