Linking to folder on network

[Davis, Jessica D.]

Thank you for your input.  Unfortunately, these folders are created and maintained by many groups across the corporation.  There will no way for me to stipulate and enforce naming conventions that support my needs.  However, inserting the %20 in place of the spaces seems to work.  Someone suggested encapsulating the path in quotation marks.  I thought I tried that, but I'm not sure, so I still have to check that out. 

I'm not using the mapped drive letter in the link, instead I'm using the URL.

Thanks again all.  As always you've been a big help.


Thanks,
Jess


-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Zdunczyk [mailto:azdunczyk at triad.rr.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 11:01 AM
To: 'Simon BUCH'; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Davis, Jessica D.
Subject: RE: Linking to folder on network

Another thing I found when working on network drives at Western
Electric/AT&T/Lucent is that the Drive letter that is assigned to the drive
needs to be the same on all machines that will be accessing the FrameMaker
documents.

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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Simon BUCH
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 4:58 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Jessica D.Davis
Subject: RE: Linking to folder on network

>From the time I worked in Adobe technical support, there are a number of
recommendations given from the days when FrameMaker was on multiple
platforms, such as:
	avoid filenames with spaces, tabs, or initial periods
	avoid using characters that have special meaning on some
operating systems, such as: / \ : ; * ? > < , $ % |
	avoid using very long filenames
	avoid using very long pathnames
	remember some operating systems are CaSe SeNsItIvE


The most important rule to remember is:
	always use UNIX style pathnames!

Why?  FrameMaker will interpret backslash sequences as special codes,
for example:
	C:\etc\hosts.fm
will interpret the '\e' as a horizontal elipse "...".  The fix is to
reference: C:/etc/hosts.fm


Even though FrameMaker is no longer multi-platform, the recommendations
still persist.

// Simon BUCH
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