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Re:Android now stops you sharing your location in photos by kalleboo on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:51PM (#47760679)
macOS can also handle files with any of those characters in the filename, it's only Windows that's affected.
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Re:Android now stops you sharing your location in photos by raw_anon_1111 on Monday April 13, 2026 @11:34PM (#47760944)
You mean 90% of desktop users…

I am surprised that the # symbol isn’t on the list.

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Re:Android now stops you sharing your location in photos by simondotau on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:09AM (#47764028)
Not colon.
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Re:Android now stops you sharing your location in photos by kalleboo on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @08:14AM (#47764607)
It can handle files with colon in the name fine, Finder just won't let you name them like that. The files themselves work fine if you created them in the Terminal/through sync.

Classic MacOS used colon as a path separator, so to support creating files that could be opened on classic MacOS the Finder disallows it.

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