Chinese folders

[gasca]

In our company we've been dealing several months with a problem that affects
backup copy.

After research we've come to the conclusion that Excel 2003 and PowerPoint 2003 may be creating folders with chinese symbols (random, no meaning), which makes backup program to freeze.

Anyone any clue for where I should start from to fix this error?

All workstations are cloned from ghost image, no internet, etc..totally disabled Vista Enterprise by GPO.

 

[Gavona]

How would I go about entering a chinese character? Does Vista record the font as well as the ASCII value for each character in a filename?.... I doubt it.

Really this does not sound like an Office problem to me. You may be better posting in Forum1583 or, for a workaround, in one of the backup fora.

Can you copy and paste one of the filenames in question into Excel cell A2 then examine the character codes one by one using =char(mid($A2,B1,1))? B1,C1 etc to contain 1, 2, 3 etc and the formula copied across under those cells.

If you want script / Macro to rename all the offending files then I expect someone could help with that too.

I would be trying to see the pattern. Is this linked to an individual, a date or totally random? If the latter then I would suspect virus or corruption.

Gavin

 

[gasca]

Thanks for your reply. A colleague of us that reads Chinese told that those symbols meant nothing.

I will try that trick on excel, these folders are always created when an Excel file is saved.

And macro is a good workaround, I'll try aswell.

Salva.