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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-67509

Possible to create invalid file/folder names in Assignment bulk download

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 3.7.3, 3.8
    • None
    • Assignment
    • None
    • MOODLE_37_STABLE, MOODLE_38_STABLE

    Description

      Background... we have a lot of students with one name (not a first name and last name) and the institution has got around this by using '*' as the first name. 

      To reproduce

      This requires the Windows operating system. I tested on Windows 10

      1. Create a new user. Make the first name just '*' and the last name anything you like. 
      2. Create another user with a firstname and lastname just for comparison
      3. Create a course and create an Assignment within that course. Allow file uploads
      4. Enrol both students
      5. Edit both users submissions and add a test file
      6. Click 'Download all submissions' next to 'Grading actions'
      7. Open the resulting zip file in the standard Windows Zip program

      The folder for the '*' user is not there as it would not be a valid Windows pathname (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file)

      By comparison, it works fine in MacOS and Linux. 

      Before somebody says "don't use * as a first name", my point is that it is possible to create a valid user account with default settings that results in an invalid zip file in Assignment. 

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              howardsmiller Howard Miller
              Adrian Greeve, Ilya Tregubov, Kevin Percy, Mathew May, Mihail Geshoski, Shamim Rezaie
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