My filenames are all garbled

Common Problems > My filenames are all garbled

If you notice that your filenames are unusually long and contain all manner of characters and underscores, the most likely reason is that you have forgotten to "quote" some characters in the filename or folder specification.  For example, if you wanted your Temprecord data files to always have the same name, and you entered a default filename specification of:

Data from Green Logger.TR

The filename actually used when the data was saved to a file would be something like this!:

1a4_20 p.m.a fro11r0920 S0001234o9r.4_20 p.m.r

This is because Temprecord is using the characters you entered as formatting codes.  To achieve the result you intended, make sure the characters in the specification you don't want used as formatting characters are enclosed in double-quotes:

"Data from Green Logger.TR"

If you do want to include formatting characters, make sure they are outside quotes, e.g.:

"Data from Green Logger" L".TR"

would cause a filename to be generated similar to:

Data from Green Logger S1234567.TR

Another reason for garbled filenames can be the use of meta-strings outside of double-quotes.  Meta-string specifiers must be inside double-quotes to be recognised and handled correctly.

See also:

Default filename specification

Meta-strings