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Cloud Import Service User Manual & Reference Guide
Cloud Import Service 

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File Naming Guidelines

Seagate follows general S3 file naming conventions.

 Folder names cannot contain forward slash  /  characters.
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
  • ASCII ranges 00–1F hex (0–31 decimal) and 7F (127 decimal)
  • non-printable ASCII (128–255 decimal characters)
@ 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)