VirtualBox

Opened 8 years ago

#15657 new defect

File drag from linux host to windows vm when filename has colon causes error

Reported by: cosmotic Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 5.1.0
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: other

Description

Steps to reproduce

  1. Take screenshot in Linux Mint Xfce 17.1
  2. Save to file, default name includes colon
  3. Drag to windows

Expected results File drags successfully

Actual results Drag and drop error due to invalid name

Windows uses colon's for alternate data streams so they can't be used in file names.

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