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Commy

Hello everybody,

After the backup, parts of the file name of some files have changed.
For example,

Kramer, Michael.vcf is changed to Kramer ^ J Michael.vcf

Thus these files are synchronized again and again because the file name does not match.

Are there problems with certain characters in the name or settings that I have to make.o make.
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xCSxXenon

Try renaming the source file to something temporary, then change it back. Maybe the original name is encoded in a weird way
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therube

Most likely the "comma" is not a "comma" but rather some character that looks like a comma.

Copy & paste your 'Kramer, Michael.vcf' name in the forum here.
(What is above is a comma, $2C$.)
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Commy

Here are a few sample files.

Folders with special characters like a "+" are not backed up correctly either.
Source: edis_ + 40K (KRD)
Target: edis_ ^ M40K (KRD)

I secure the data on my OneDrive storage at Microsoft.

Within my own machine, the folders and files stay the same as the original.
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therube

I'm thinking the ZIP "broke" the file names as what is inside, best I can tell are simply "plain" characters with the only "odd" thing being the ^ character (sequence).

I was expecting to see some Unicode (non-ASCII) characters.

A copy/paste of the file names (from your source & target file/directory names) into the forum here will (probably) retain these characters & allow us to "see" (& copy) them.

I secure the data on my OneDrive storage at Microsoft.
Instead of there, if you set up a local pair, different directories on your own machine, does the same issue occur there?

A + character is nothing special - at least on Windows - though maybe it is something special to OneDrive (which then may do something like "translate" it to ^M on its' end).
(But that doesn't seem to be the case, Invalid file names and file types in OneDrive and SharePoint.)