Photoshop Replaces # with _ when I Export As PNG

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December 20, 2022
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Hello!

The files I work with include using a # to seperate information.

I.E

Carina#logo_dark_v1_December and the psd will save as that naming perfectly fine.

However when I export as a png the naming will change from a # to an underscore. So it becomes:

Carina_logo_dark_v1_December and I hae to manually go in and change/readd the #.

This is fine when I'm working on one file but when I'm working on multiple it becomes quite a pain. Does anyone know of a fix?

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh

@carinawordbank – Just adding to the reply from @Kevin Stohlmeyer it is indeed “best practice” to not include special characters in filenames. Some extend this to only using the period . dot character once to designate the filename extension and not elsewhere (as some software may get confused as to what the extension is).

You can use Adobe Bridge's batch rename to bulk replace characters in filenames. Even later versions of the Mac OS Finder offers a basic batch rename feature.

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2019/03/bridge-batch-rename-to-clean-invalid.html

carinawordbankAuthor

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Thank you all for the responses! Unfortunetly this file naming is dictated by my client 😞 I don't have the option. I was using a renaming tool but was wondering if adobe had anything setting wise I could change.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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You should educate your client before you encounter file corruption.

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TheeDodger

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You should educate yourself before you answer questions incorrectly.

Stephen Marsh

Correct answer

Community Expert

@carinawordbank – Just adding to the reply from @Kevin Stohlmeyer it is indeed “best practice” to not include special characters in filenames. Some extend this to only using the period . dot character once to designate the filename extension and not elsewhere (as some software may get confused as to what the extension is).

You can use Adobe Bridge's batch rename to bulk replace characters in filenames. Even later versions of the Mac OS Finder offers a basic batch rename feature.

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2019/03/bridge-batch-rename-to-clean-invalid.html