Write error with filenames that have "?"

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realbbb
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Write error with filenames that have "?"

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Getting error when copying installed applications "Where's My Perry? 1.1.0.apk" and "Where's My Water? 1.9.0.apk". Get "Error writing to target file!" Only get this with "?" mark perhaps?


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Post by *ZoSTeR »

"?" is not allowed in standard Windows file names. It's a wildcard like *
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BTW, is it allowed in Linux?
We are not so S.M.A.R.T. as we imagine...
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

Where did you try to copy them? I could copy an app with a '?' in the name to the internal SD-Card without problems on my Nexus 7. But I couldn't copy it to a FAT32-formatted USB stick mounted with stickmount. So it's probably a file system problem.

Btw, a similar problem exists with a dictionary from "Hacker's Keyboard" named:
HK "English (en)" Dictionary

because of the double quotes. I'm already replacing these characters:
:|><
so I will add
"*?
too.
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