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    Which non-alphabetic and non numeric characters are accepted in a filename?


    Hi, I am looking into a migration of folders from one old server to another one. We asked someone to create a report to help remove no-longer needed files but we discovered that thare are a few possibly more than 100 of them files that have illegal characters in the filename ex: commans ",". The total list of files to migrate are easily in the 200,000 from about 20 different people.So we need to address those illegal filenames but to do this we need to find them first. In doing so, I need to know which non alpha and non numeric characters are accepted in a Windows filename. I know the

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