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BetterRed · 02-13-2023, 06:36 PM

The culprit is NTFS, where a colon (':') in a file/folder name designates that what follows is the name of an alternate data stream. There are tools to seek and destroy them.

Nearly forgot, before I discovered calibre I used them to store metadata, that's how come I know about them.

02-13-2023, 06:36 PM	#6
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,843 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	The culprit is NTFS, where a colon (':') in a file/folder name designates that what follows is the name of an alternate data stream. There are tools to seek and destroy them. Nearly forgot, before I discovered calibre I used them to store metadata, that's how come I know about them. Last edited by BetterRed; 02-13-2023 at 06:40 PM.