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Seagate follows general S3 file naming conventions.
| Safe characters | |
|---|---|
| Alphanumeric characters | |
| 0-9 | numerals |
| a-z | lowercase letters |
| A-Z | uppercase letters |
| Special characters | |
| * | asterisk |
| ! | exclamation point |
| - | hyphen |
| ( | parenthesis (open) |
| ) | parenthesis (close) |
| . | period |
| ' | single quote |
| _ | underscore |
| Characters to avoid | |
|---|---|
| & | ampersand |
ASCII characters
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|
| @ | at sign |
| \ | backslash |
| ^ | caret |
| : | colon |
| , | comma |
| { | curly brace (left) |
| } | curly brace (right) |
| $ | dollar sign |
| = | equal sign |
| / | forward slash |
| ` | grave |
| < | greater-than symbol |
| > | less-than symbol |
| % | percent sign |
| | | pipe or vertical bar |
| + | plus sign |
| # | pound character |
| ? | question mark |
| " | quotation mark |
| ; | semi-colon |
| space - sequences with spaces, especially multiple spaces, may be lost | |
| [ | square bracket (left) |
| ] | square bracket (right) |