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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0010329 | ardour | bugs | public | 2026-05-11 21:04 | 2026-05-11 21:18 |
| Reporter | colinf | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | text | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0010329: Misleading message when trying to name a track/bus with a '.' at the end | ||||
| Description | On renaming a track or bus where the new name has a trailing full stop, a generic error dialogue is displayed: "The name includes special characters (<>:"/\|?*) which is discouraged in track and bus names, due to filename restrictions on some systems.". This is a bit confusing, since it happens even when none of those "special" characters are in the name, and '.' is not one of them. | ||||
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I expect this is due to a special case: Windows does not allow a dot at the end of a file-name, and Ardour sessions are supposed to be portable. |
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Oh and a space at the end is also illegal on windows.. see `ARDOUR::legalize_for_universal_path` |
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Also, is it even necessary to forbid '.' at the end of track/bus names? I can see that forbidding characters that are not allowed anywhere in a file name makes some sense to simplify naming sources, exported files, and so on, but as far as I know there's nowhere that uses a bare track or bus name as a file name. |
