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What characters are forbidden in OS X filenames?

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Mar 15, 20265771 views
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Is there a list of characters which are not allowed in filenames and paths on OS X?

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is allowed. Only ( ) and are forbidden for HFS+. however is switched in POSIX-based software to : Thanks to Graham Lee who corrected me on this!

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