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Comment by raw_anon_1111

21 hours ago

And you don’t see why Google would cater to Windows and a Mac users at the expense of Linux users?

macOS can also handle files with any of those characters in the filename, it's only Windows that's affected.

  • Not colon.

    • It can handle files with colon in the name fine, Finder just won't let you name them like that. The files themselves work fine if you created them in the Terminal/through sync.

      Classic MacOS used colon as a path separator, so to support creating files that could be opened on classic MacOS the Finder disallows it.