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So, I have learned that copying from Linux to Windows partitions like exFAT or NTFS has restrictions.

Linux can't copy a file/folder to exFAT ending with a period. It gives an error. If the file ends with spaces, they will be removed, causing problems with future compares which will fail.

There ...

FYI: Linux can't copy a file/folder to exFAT ending with a period. It gives an error.There are several illegal characters, but parentheses are not one of them. Most of them are not surprising if you are familiar with Windows; it includes quotes, asterisks, forward and back slash, angle brackets ...

On further investigation, I found that it was not what it seemed. The destination was a USB drive, and it was formatted exFAT, not ext3 like the normal Linux partitions. So, exFAT does not allow many of the legal Linux characters, and does not allow a period at the end of a file, and perhaps doesn't ...

I have run into a similar failure with filenames having parentheses. Linux has no problem with any of these "special characters", and I don't use Windows, so I'd expect transfers from one drive to another on Linux to work with legal characters. Modifying all the files using certain legal characters ...

I searched and couldn't find this issue addressed, so sorry if it's been discussed.

I'm just starting out with FFS, and my first try got failures due to, apparently, parentheses in some directory names. An example is:

Error Cannot create directory "/media/user/USB-Music/Dire Straits/Alchemy (Live ...