I can do no better than quote Randal himself again, from the same thread: "Well, there was a very embarassing error for Apple a few years ago for the 10.3 to 1

I can do no better than quote Randal himself again, from the same thread: "Well, there was a very embarassing error for Apple a few years ago for the 10.3 to 10.4 upgrade as I recall. Apparently, if you had a space in your home disk name, all sorts of files got deleted. So, the moral is, no matter how rare you think something is, that's NO EXCUSE for not doing the right thing for all possible characters." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/504a75cc7d87e16c http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/504a75cc7... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/0385fc2d1dbf745d http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/msg/0385fc2d1...