[Son of Queequeg]

Thanks for all the info! (Sorry for not listening in, didn’t get any notifications…)

Actually I’m using Mac – don’t know if it has similar limitations for filenames as the one mentioned for Windows above. (As a rather typical Mac-user, I’m blissfully ignorant of everything that goes on on ”the far side” – of keyboard and screen.)

In any case, the problem has never occurred with any of the files stored on my computer, the ”mutations” only turn up in the Library of the Reader (and only on the SD-card, if I remember right) – usually, as I said, when I check after getting the message ”contentservice has stopped unexpectedly”.

Looking through my files I see several with commas and apostrophes, unaffected, but maybe it is a combination of name-length and special characters, as hinted above. I will try to check closer on the earlier cases.

My real fear was that this was some kind of viral thing, so that I might one day turn on my Reader and find ALL my files to be unreadable ”EPU”:s … But from what has been said here, I guess that won’t happen.

-------------------------------- Edit:
Checked up on the ”ghost files” (half of them still unreadable after renaming, the other half not).

Just to take a further example, another file downloaded here (very nicely done by brucewelch):

Zweig, Stefan - Ungeduld des Herzens. 1939.epub

which was transformed (while on the Reader) into the short but unsweet:

ZWEIG_~5.EPU

(Worked as it should after renaming to EPUB.) Not particularly long title, no special characters (the dash is common enough)… My Mac is not the newest (OS 10.5.8), but as already mentioned, there are never any problems with the files on the computer.