Windows Naming Conventions

To ensure your files and folders sync correctly on other operating systems, try to follow these guidelines:

Incompatible characters with Windows

When naming your files, avoid characters incompatible with the Windows file system:

/	forward slash
\	backslash
<	less than
>	greater than
:	colon
"	double quote
\|	vertical bar or pipe
?	question mark
*	asterisk
.	period or a space at the end of a file or folder name

For more information about the Windows naming conventions visit Microsoft.

Max character length

Windows only allows file and folder names of 260 characters or less but permit a maximum total path length of 32,767 characters which will be supported by AllSync. Please note that the Windows Explorer supports only a maximum total path length of 260 characters. The content of folders with a path length of more than 260 characters cannot be displayed with the Windows Explorer. Alternatively, you can use a tool like FreeCommander to display and process files with a path length of more than 260 characters.

Case conflicts

Most Linux installations allow you to have several files or folders with the same name but different capitalization. However, by default, Windows won't differentiate file or folder names by case. Therefore, if AllSync comes across Linux directories named "DATA FOLDER" and "data folder", it will create only one folder with this name at the Windows computer but it will sync the content of both Linux folders with the content of the single folder at the Windows computer.