[Laurence]

I keep getting this error message about a "Illegal filaname" when running fsck from the command line in SUM.

I do have the Adobe Creative Suite installed and there is a known issue with PS and Illustrator CS2 where the Vietnamese license agreement in the Legal folder contains illegal file names. I assumed that deleting these files would fix the issue, but it didn't. On one machine this did fix the issue, but on another one it didn't.

Does anyone know of any application that will tell me what the path to this illegal file is? I really don't want to format the drive and reinstall everything again! Tech Tool Pro reports no errors as it doesn't seem to check for illegal filenames. Does DiskWarrior do this?

Any suggestions?

[Watson]

You might check for the same filename as earlier, only with ._ (dot underscore) in front of it. You might well have to go into the Terminal to do this. Open Terminal.app in the Applications->Utilities folder, drag the folder containing the problem files to the terminal app. If you must do this from SUM, then I suppose you know where the path is located anyway.

This will list the path to the folder in question in the terminal. Back the cursor to the front of the line and type "ls -a " so that the line looks like:

ls -a /some/path

You should see a listing of every file in that directory. Now look for those "._" files. If you see a file of the same name with "._" in front, you might try to remove it by typing:

rm -i ._filename*

where filename is the first unique part of the filename relative to every other similar file in the directory. You will be prompted to delete the file. If you see any other files listed than the one you want to delete, type "n" at the prompt.

[Laurence]

It turns out that it was a Bridge update or something that put the same legal folder with illegal names in the Documents folder of the user account that installed it.