Thread: semicolon in file names
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Old 12-29-2011, 09:33 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
i was doing a save to disc, then burn to CD; of a book selection & found that my burn software objects to seeing semicolons in file names.

that happens whenever calibre sees 2 or more authors, it generates a file name at "save to disc stage" that uses semicolon as author name separator.

do I just have to find a more tolerant burn program ( to replace Roxio) or is there a work-around.

is it bad practice to generate file names that contain ; ?
Just add them to a all to a Zip/RAR (without any punctuation in the zips file name) befor yo burn that one, big file
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