An invalid character was given for the name?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:48 pm

I am getting this error on vault lately and have been unable to check in. Any help would be appreciated. The error as reported in the message pane is:

[2/17/2004 12:31:39 AM] Preparing data to begin transaction
[2/17/2004 12:31:39 AM] Beginning transaction
[2/17/2004 12:31:39 AM] Item $/D:\Vault\PCraft caused the transaction to fail: An invalid character was given for the name.
[2/17/2004 12:31:39 AM] Transaction failed

dan · Post by **dan** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:53 am

What is the full path of the file you are trying to check in (both on local disk and in Vault)? It may be that you are trying to add a file with an invalid character?

sterwill · Post by **sterwill** » Tue Feb 17, 2004 3:23 pm

It appears from the error message that a file named "D:\Vault\PCraft" is being sent to the server. Backslashes and colons are invalid characters in Vault repository names. Is this operation an Add of a file or folder or a Check In / Commit of modifications?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:41 pm

I finally figured this out just goofing around and trying random things. It seems if I uncheck the "requites checkout before checkin" option, it checks in fine. I'm using vault 1.2.2 (740).
A better error message in the future would be much apreciated.