Errors: folders with space at the end of name

Posts: 3 · bsabiston 24 Jun 2020, 12:16

I just tried to mirror a drive to a brand new drive, and I got a bunch of these errors. There's a space at the end of some of my folders.

Is there any way to tell FreeFileSync to get rid of these?

ALSO - I have used FFS in the past years to sync this same drive to other drives, and I have never gotten this error before. Why does it complain about this now when these spaces have been there since they were created?

Posts: 1038 · therube 24 Jun 2020, 15:02

What version of FFS?

10.23 said:

Don't allow creating folder names ending with space or dot

That's on the creation end.
Not sure what happens if the space is on the source end?

(A discussion of "spaces", Windows Illegal Character Help.)

Posts: 3 · bsabiston 24 Jun 2020, 16:45

I have version 10.26.