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Oh, and now periods at the end of folders/files. That would be nice to fix. I still haven't figured out how to access or delete a folder that ends in a "." and has stuff in it in windows. I can see why you would want to sync files that start with periods even though it's not completely kosher since there are .htaccess files for instance. I'm not sure how bad folders that start with periods are or are not? I haven't tried yet, but how do you handle illegal folder names like "CON"?

Thanks for the reply. Just found out today that files that start with spaces can also be synced so don't forget fixing folders starting with spaces in your fix too...

I'm not in any way official support, but I will tell you that windows itself, the windows api, doesn't support files names longer than 260 characters (and that includes the full path and extension). Even beyond Bittorrent Sync, you're asking for headaches to have long file names.

I'm not sure of how you mean to handle illegal file names across platforms, but I would suggest that if a mac folder ends in a space that you don't sync that folder to a windows computer... After having issues in the windows sync folder, I had the mac use make a "test " folder and it synced. I had to delete the folder from the command line with the unc path. I've not had the time to try making other folder/file names on the mac that would be illegal in windows, but I hope you already take care of illegal names and this just slipped by. 1.4.103 on the pc side not sure on mac version -Michael edit: How the end user can deal with the directories with spaces at the end If you have the same issue and need to delete the folders in windows, I found going to an administrator command prompt and typing the following works. replace the c:\direcory\directory with whatever your folder name really is. Make sure it's empty first. Note there is a space before the second quotation mark. rd "\\?\c:\directory\directorywithspaceatend " If you end up with c:\direcorywithspaceatend and c:\direcory, you'll have to delete the one without the space first from the command prompt. I've now seen that if you have both that the files disspear from the one with the space. But if you delete the one without the space that files reappear in the one with the space so that you can move the files out and then delete the one with the space. What a mess!