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Using the Desktop Client or WebDav it is possible to synchronize data with Research Drive from various operating systems with different file systems which all have different rules for file naming length and special characters. For example in Mac you may be able to use a space after the name of a file while in Windows this is not permitted. To make sure that your data is interoperable it is important that you use file and folder naming which will not conflict on different systems. The easiest way to do this is to use simple(but informative) file and folder naming without any special characters at all. In fact, making file names readable and compatable compatible with multiple file systems is a FAIR principle because it ensures interoperability. 

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