Files and Directories with *'s

I have a problem where I moved files and folders from a 10.4.8 G4 server on to a new 10.4.8 G5 Server with XSAN 1.4. Some of these files and folders are part numbers and have *'s in the names. Any directory or file with a * in the name appears normally on the local file system. Over AFP and SMB these files and directory names get clobbered and end up looking like 6 characters ~ and one character, or something like ADQEOI~F. Has anyone ever seen this behavior before? I'd love to just rename all of the files and folders but I'm sure my users will not approve. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

You probably should rename the files.
A * is specifically not allowed in a file name. What's happening is that the file is stored with the unicode representation of the character. Unicode-aware apps like the Finder can deal with this but most other apps (including the file sharing daemons) cannot and that's why you see the unusual file names.
You're going to run into all kinds of other problems, too. Renaming your files i the best bet.

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Vidikron wrote:
> On our internal web page we have some links to various
areas like Office Forms,
> Safety, etc... The supervisors that maintain these
documents have access to
> shares that allow them add, remove, and update the files
as needed. Since the
> content in each changes fairly often we're currently
using CFDIRECTORY with the
> LIST action to display the contents to the users on the
web page.
>
> Some of the areas now contain quite a few documents and
the supervisors would
> like to be able to group their documents in
subdirectories. I know I can I can
> use RECURSE="yes" to have the web page list the contents
of these folders, but
> the supervisors would like the end users to see the
subdirectories as well so
> things are less confusing and cluttered on both ends.
>
> So is there any way in CF to set up these pages so that
subdirectories can can
> be navigated and the documents selected? If possible,
I'd like something that
> can handle this dynamically so that I don't have to
constantly change the code
> every time a supervisor decides to add/remove a
directory.
>
> We're currently running CF8 Standard.
>
> Thanks!
>
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