Phone backup names rejected on Windows
Files from a phone backup are flagged as invalid names on Windows, though they look valid, because of trailing characters the phone creates.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 21 August 2026 · last reported 22 August 2026
What's going wrong
A user backing up a phone messaging app folder to Windows saw name-invalid errors for files that looked fine in Explorer.
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