# Collad2POD - Filename Paths with spaces??

**URL:** <https://forums.imgtec.com/t/collad2pod-filename-paths-with-spaces/488>\
**Category:** PowerVR Insider\
**Created:** [September 26, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.imgtec.com/t/collad2pod-filename-paths-with-spaces/488 "2009-09-26T21:39:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![bitmangler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@bitmangler](https://forums.imgtec.com/u/bitmangler)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.imgtec.com/t/collad2pod-filename-paths-with-spaces/488/1 "2009-09-26T21:39:51Z")

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I have written my own GUI shell for calling your Collada2POD converter on Win32.&nbsp; Yes, I know that you already have a GUI, but it doesn’t suit my needs for my pipeline.  
  
The problem that I have is that I cannot seem to get your Collada2POD to accept any spaces in the Path or Filenames passed to it.  
  
I’ve even attempted using %20 instead of the actual ASCII space character, but to no avail.&nbsp; Your GUI seems to be able to pass file-path names with no problem.  
  
Could you provide me with the solution to get the “space” character to be accepted?&nbsp; If that’s some other encoding no problem…just need to know what that is.

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**Author:** ![Scott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.imgtec.com/scott/32/256_2.png) [@Scott](https://forums.imgtec.com/u/Scott)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.imgtec.com/t/collad2pod-filename-paths-with-spaces/488/2 "2009-09-29T14:22:09Z")

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BitMangler wrote:

I have written my own GUI shell for calling your Collada2POD converter on Win32.&nbsp; Yes, I know that you already have a GUI, but it doesn't suit my needs for my pipeline.  
  
The problem that I have is that I cannot seem to get your Collada2POD to accept any spaces in the Path or Filenames passed to it.  
  
I've even attempted using %20 instead of the actual ASCII space character, but to no avail.&nbsp; Your GUI seems to be able to pass file-path names with no problem.  
  
Could you provide me with the solution to get the "space" character to be accepted?&nbsp; If that's some other encoding no problem...just need to know what that is.  

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Hi,
  

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You should be able to just&nbsp;surround the path in quotes but there appears to be a bug stopping this from working. This is something we'll fix for our next release. In the meantime surrounding the path with **"** seems to work.
  

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Thanks,
  

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Scott

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**Author:** ![bitmangler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@bitmangler](https://forums.imgtec.com/u/bitmangler)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.imgtec.com/t/collad2pod-filename-paths-with-spaces/488/3 "2009-09-29T17:50:43Z")

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Thanks for the quick reply.&nbsp; Yes, I had already tried the double quotes as well, and noted that it also didn’t work.&nbsp; I’ll attempt now by wrapping entire string with the "

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**Author:** ![bitmangler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@bitmangler](https://forums.imgtec.com/u/bitmangler)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.imgtec.com/t/collad2pod-filename-paths-with-spaces/488/4 "2009-09-29T19:04:08Z")

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The:   
  
"&nbsp;   
  
works perfectly…again Thanks!  
  
:-))