Subject: Re: [Name Mangler Talk] Finding file(s) with "illegal" names

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:07:42 -0700

On Mar 13, 2018, at 3:49 PM, [email-masked] wrote:

> Disk Warrior sees no problems at all. So I suppose I could reformat the SSD and start over, but since the lives of those $$ things are measured in writes and rewrites I’d be a much happier camper if I could find another solution.
> 
> Any chance Name Mangler could identify and locate the offending file(s)?

Probably not, because Name Mangler is a passive program that just takes a set of dropped files and renames them according to your commands. It has no sense of what's illegal or not, so you'd have to know what the illegal name is in order to spot it in Name Mangler.

Sorry;
-rob.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:49:56 -0700 (PDT)

Carbon Copy Cloner has had no trouble backing up my 2015 Macbook Pro to a partition on an external SSD, but CCC has not been able to create a Recovery HD on that directory. Here are the reasons why.

FSCK returns:
...

** Checking catalog file.
   Illegal name
** Checking multi-linked files.
...

** The volume Ganga Backup - 850 Pro could not be repaired.

Thanks!