Naming Files

[Jdawg]

forgive me if I'm in the wrong place, but I didn't know where to post this, and the Sandbox doesn't have a button for me to post a new topic.

Why does an Apple Computer allow you to use a space as the first character of a FileMaker file name, but a PC won't let you do that? It will let me put the space there, but when I click off the file, it jumps back and removes the space. Any suggestions?

thanks,

Jonathan

[Ender]

It's a bad idea anyway. Spaces in file names make it more likely to give you headaches later when you try to add file references.

[Jdawg]

That's true. I just went to the FileMaker website and found out that Windows requires files to start with an alpha numeric character. It's hard coded into the OS.