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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
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* I once managed to screw up and get a filename with a colon in Windows, which isn't ever supposed to happen. I couldn't do anything with it from within the Windows environment because the path was invalid. Eventually grabbed a Linux boot disk. That was able to rename it.
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Colons in NTFS file names are legitimate. Firstly the one we all know and hate, after a device name e.g. "D:".
They are also used to delimit Alternate Data Stream names. Notepad knows about them - create a file (e.g.my.file), and then run the command: "notepad my.file:note".
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#A...eams_.28ADS.29
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