At the risk of be one answer too many, I will add that I suggest to
people here, "why take a chance on failure."  First use short names,
10 characters is a safe max.  Second, are characters other than
letters or numbers needed?
 Once the files are attached, nobody reads their names.  Work with
the files with whatever names help you keep track of the material,
but then do a final "save as" with a short alpha/numeric" name.  When
doing a quick paperclip review
 of attachments, the short names are easy to check, too.  SO use
names that describe the topic.  "smithfilethree"  is not a helpful name.
This failed.
"3.Smith_R01_Stroke_Budget_Just_12_12_2008.pdf"

This worked.  All 12 files in the application had to be renamed.
"budgetjust.pdf"

Bob
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Robert Beattie
University of Michigan
xxxxxx@umich.edu   (734) 936-1283

On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Burchell valldejuli wrote:

The directions are pretty clear about no special characters but not
specific
enough to my liking for spaces in the PDF file names uploaded to SF424
applications.

Use meaningful titles for file names.
Only use standard characters in file names: A-z, 0-9, Hyphen (-),
Underscore
( _ ).

To this end I tell folks not to have spaces.

Example: Joe_Biosketch or JoeBiosketch
VS.
 Joe Biosketch or Preliminary Studies

Am I being too picky? I've heard that spaces can cause problems.

Please advise

THANKS
~BURCH

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