The filename did not contain valid characters
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Dear CodeProject developers! I was editing the article (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/321233/TMAverage) and I`ve received "The filename did not contain valid characters" when pressed Submit button. I didn`t find any problems about filename, so, I tried again - nothing changed. Then I posted another article with slightly changed names (directory name, article name). After editing and posting from one attempt I succeeded in publishing. But then, when I tried updating - got the same mistake: incvalid character in the filename. I think it`s not invalid character. The problem was also in incorrect view of the code (that`s why I decided to update) - but in the preview window it was just OK. Any ideas?
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Dear CodeProject developers! I was editing the article (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/321233/TMAverage) and I`ve received "The filename did not contain valid characters" when pressed Submit button. I didn`t find any problems about filename, so, I tried again - nothing changed. Then I posted another article with slightly changed names (directory name, article name). After editing and posting from one attempt I succeeded in publishing. But then, when I tried updating - got the same mistake: incvalid character in the filename. I think it`s not invalid character. The problem was also in incorrect view of the code (that`s why I decided to update) - but in the preview window it was just OK. Any ideas?
I've just updated your article using my account and your account and both times was successful. Are you adding any non-ASCII characters to the title?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I've just updated your article using my account and your account and both times was successful. Are you adding any non-ASCII characters to the title?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Hey Chris, I am seeing this same error suddenly. I had saved a version or two of an aritcle in process but now I can't submit updates. Don
10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10
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I've just updated your article using my account and your account and both times was successful. Are you adding any non-ASCII characters to the title?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris, I'm having the same problem & I don't have any non-ASCII characters: A DatePicker based Event Calendar with MVC3 and AJAX. I tried clearing the title box and typed "ZZZZZ", it still happened. It submitted the article OK through the wizard a couple of hours before, I was just making a few ammendments before publishing. The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article" [Edit] I forgot to say, the page was posting back, so it wasn't client side validation. Dunno if this helps...
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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I've just updated your article using my account and your account and both times was successful. Are you adding any non-ASCII characters to the title?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
The article now has just disappeared. It couldn't be so bad that it merits deletion before being published, surely? I thought this merited its own post.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Chris, I'm having the same problem & I don't have any non-ASCII characters: A DatePicker based Event Calendar with MVC3 and AJAX. I tried clearing the title box and typed "ZZZZZ", it still happened. It submitted the article OK through the wizard a couple of hours before, I was just making a few ammendments before publishing. The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article" [Edit] I forgot to say, the page was posting back, so it wasn't client side validation. Dunno if this helps...
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]Keith Barrow wrote:
The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"
Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Keith Barrow wrote:
The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"
Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error?
Here is what I tried:
- I only added a small bit of text to the article body (a paragraph, and an ol with one li in it) - I got the error
- I only changed the title to "ZZZZZ" without changing anything else. - I got the error
I went in a third time to try just re-submitting with no change, but the article was deleted (not sure how) but given 1&2 it looks likely that no change would give the error. Not the same thing as testing it though :)
Chris Maunder wrote:
BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?
Please (see the primal scream below)...
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error?
Here is what I tried:
- I only added a small bit of text to the article body (a paragraph, and an ol with one li in it) - I got the error
- I only changed the title to "ZZZZZ" without changing anything else. - I got the error
I went in a third time to try just re-submitting with no change, but the article was deleted (not sure how) but given 1&2 it looks likely that no change would give the error. Not the same thing as testing it though :)
Chris Maunder wrote:
BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?
Please (see the primal scream below)...
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]I found the issue with your article (and 27 other articles) that would have caused this error. It all goes back to a change we made a couple of months ago while we transitioned over to a new file system and there was a very brief gap in which a few articles became a little confused.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I found the issue with your article (and 27 other articles) that would have caused this error. It all goes back to a change we made a couple of months ago while we transitioned over to a new file system and there was a very brief gap in which a few articles became a little confused.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Cool. Shall we try again?
10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10
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Cool. Shall we try again?
10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10
Please do, and let me know how it goes.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Please do, and let me know how it goes.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Just updated my article without error. Thanks Chris
10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10
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Just updated my article without error. Thanks Chris
10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10
I need a "wipes sweat from brow" emoticon.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I need a "wipes sweat from brow" emoticon.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris, This guy has the same problem: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4142856/Re-Formatting-issue.aspx[^]
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Keith Barrow wrote:
The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"
Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Thanks for undeleting the article, I drafted in Word but it took a good while to transfer to HTML!
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Thanks for undeleting the article, I drafted in Word but it took a good while to transfer to HTML!
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]In the online HTML editor there is a button that looks like <> in a circle with a line through it. Just paste your word doc into the editor, click this button, and a lot of the grunt work in converting from Word to HTML is done.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP