Comment by kalleboo

10 hours ago

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.