You would also want to make sure that none of the folders have trailing space at the end of their names.” The widely accepted best practice for naming files/folders is to only use a-Z, A-Z, 0-9, dots, dashes, and underscores. This includes / ? \ : * | " or any character you can type with the Option key. “I would recommend avoiding special characters in file/folder names from here on. Synology Tech Support advised the following: file names were changed to six(?) alpha/numeric characters extension when the original names included certain ‘offensive’ characters I did have one particularly pernicious situation wherein thousands of files were subjected to "name mangling’ immediately after a DSM update. (I also have another Time Machine backup on an external HDD USB connected to my iMac) That seems to have cleared up and I haven’t had that issue since DSM 7, methinks. I’m also grateful for you sharing your remote access experiences and may dig in to setting such up for password management synching, as you mentioned in your previous article on suchĮchoing your comments about Apple sometimes dropping the server connection, I experienced such with earlier versions of DSM when Time Machine failed to back up there, and then, to boot, wouldn’t recognize it’s previous sparse bundle and, thus, had to start over. I, too, have a Synology NAS (DS418play) and have, mostly, been pretty happy with it.
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