Rules for Paths

Acceptable Characters

Paths can consist of:

•	letters: A-Z a-z

•	numbers: 0-9

•	spaces (blanks)

•	special: ~ @ # - _ + . / \ : $ %

Caution: You should assume that characters not listed above are potentially problematic. Use them at your own risk.

Unacceptable Characters

The following characters have been verified as unacceptable:

•	special: ‘ ! ^ & * ( ) = [ ] { } | ; ’ “ , < > ?

Path Length

Navigation paths to specified files or folders can contain no more than 200 total characters. For example, the path to the Public folder on the C: drive of a typical computer, C:\Public\, contains 10 characters.