Forbidden Filenames

[dinkypumpkin]

On 04/03/2013 09:25, Kapitano wrote:
> Following up on my own question....
>
> Using the --fatfilename switch removes reserved characters from
> filenames, but seemingly not from folder names.
>
> (I'd assumed --fatfilename would reduce filename lengths to 8
> characters, as under the old FAT16 system, which is why I didn't try it.)
>
> So I can download 'How Tickled am I?', but not into a folder named for
> the series, because when GiP tries to create the folder, it produces the
> error in line 3939.
>
> I'm guessing that GiP tries to create the folder *before* the reserved
> characters are stripped out. So is it possible to perform the strip (so
> to speak) before the --subdir switch is acted upon?

Not so.  The subdirectory name is also sanitised with --fatfilename, as 
you can see from the example Vangelis posted.  Without seeing your 
command or the full output, it's impossible to know where you went wrong.