http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/ Paul Grenier, Lead Moderator en Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:38:07 +0000 http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/topic/dreaded-percent-sign-in-file-names#post-5579 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:06:47 +0000 hockeytownrox 5579@http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/ <p>We're all using Office 2007 actually...the same version. And IE 7. What we noticed at the same time...is that these two users...when they are working within Sharepoint...create a task and then want to attach a file from a document library to the task...not only does it append the % signs to the file name in place of the spaces (as if its not re-encoding the URL spaces back to UNC file name format), its immediately using the temporary Internet file folder in the 'path' name at the bottom of the task as the file path instead of where they actually attached it from. It should be coming from Sharepoint and the folder where they obtained it. Instead the OS is making a local cached copy of it and showing that's where the attachment is actually pointing to. </p> <p>C:\user\local settings\temporary internet files\ie5\xdhfy5\....</p> <p>So that issue appears to be the same for both. These are XP SP3 users with Office 2007...its very frustrating that we can't resolve that. </p> http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/topic/dreaded-percent-sign-in-file-names#post-5548 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:30:10 +0000 AutoSponge 5548@http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/ <p>Which version of Office are they using? </p> http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/topic/dreaded-percent-sign-in-file-names#post-5507 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:15:04 +0000 hockeytownrox 5507@http://www.endusersharepoint.com/STP/ <p>We're recently installed a Sharepoint 2007 server and are ramping up to go live here very shortly and stop using shared network drives altogether.</p> <p>However, we've run into a bit of a snafu. Two of our Windows XP SP3 users (one has IE6 and another IE7) are experiencing the dreaded percent sign "%" encoding whenever they are working through their browser on Sharepoint and are attempting to attach a file to a task that has spaces in the file name. We have created a new "network place" for everyone that points to our Sharepoint URL, so people can attach items to tasks when working on the site. For most people (Vista users and even other XP users), the spaces in the file names remain spaces and we never see the % signs. However for these two users, we cannot resolve this and have tried everything we can think of. Everyone is using the same LAN Sharepoint URL and the same network place sharepoint mapping. Yet for these two users, as SOON as they click on a file name through that network place mapping, those percent signs appear and they don't go away. </p> <p>Any help is appreciated. </p>