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Bug 322895

Summary: : is an invalid character in resource name 'some:file.txt'.
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: germund <germund>
Component: ResourcesAssignee: Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description germund CLA 2010-08-17 08:17:19 EDT 
Build Identifier: I20100608-0911

Is there any possibility/workaround to allow ':' in resource names in Eclipse on Windows? (or any of the disallowed characters \ / : * ? < > | )

(We do have implemented our own file system, but this error comes from org.eclipse.core.resources: "'some:file.txt' is an invalid resource name.". Simply hiding these files with a resource filter is not an option.)


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2010-08-20 14:46:15 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 160809 ***