Azure blob mounted as drive in windows does not work with space in filename

[cstrickland (Cai Strickland)]

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Mounted a drive for our blob storage in azure, but when i try to create a "new folder" or copy anything that has a space in the name to it, it fails because of the space

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

- os/version: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition 21H2 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 10.0.20348.2700 (x86_64)
- os/type: windows
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.23.1
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: cmount

Are you on the latest version of rclone? You can validate by checking the version listed here:
--> yeah just downloaded today

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Microsoft Azure blob storage

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

Using rclone as a service to mount a network drive in windows, no command used.

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[test0blobbystorage]
type = azureblob
account = XXX
key = XXX
tenant = XXX

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag

Logs read as follows (quite obvious what the issue is)

http://box.kaetzle.in/code/text.txt

How do i escape the space without windows noticing? Is it something I can configure in rclone? or can i configure it in WinSCP? or do i just live with it and make directories with mkdir? Seems like a pretty simple fix, just replace all spaces with e.g. an underscore?
Just want to know if that is something rclone supports or if i should just work with it (I don't really mind but if the option is there i wana use it)

[kapitainsky]

You can not have spaces in containers names. This is how it works with Azure:

Paths are specified as remote:container (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:container/path/to/dir.

Only within container you can do what you want. Check Azure docs for containers allowed characters.

[cstrickland (Cai Strickland)]

Yes, I know I can't have a space, but I'm curious if rclome or winsfp has any built in workarounds for this limitation, that perhaps switches the space for an underscore or some other supported character

[kapitainsky]

Nope. Not even sure how it would be useful to be honest.

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

Recommended would be to create a container and mount that instead.

[cstrickland (Cai Strickland)]

oh so mounting a container as opposed to the storage root allows for spaces in filenames? well that solves the issue then, i didn;'t know, i'll give it a test thanks!