Which characters are allowed in GeoCloud Drive?

🤔 Situation

The GeoCloud Drive has a set of characters which are not supported.

The character set is limited to support various operating systems like Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS.

These characters have special meanings in the operating systems and are therefore forbidden.

Language-specific marks and symbols for letters are not affected by the restriction.

🌱 Solution

Avoid the following characters in file- and folder names.

• @

• #

• %

• &

• {

• }

• \

• /

• <

• >

• *

• /

• [blank space at the beginning]

• $

• !

• '

• “

• :

• +

• |

• =

An improved error handling for the DesktopApp will be available in autumn 2024.
Before the synchronization takes place, we will inform you in case the file- or folder name contains forbidden characters.