Issue With NTFS ADS separator

Question

We recently upgraded Confluence to 8.8.1 from 7.

After the upgrade we are experiencing many issues with some of our pages that have images.  When the images were created the were created in the format...

image2017-10-16 14:7:48.png

Now when we are attempting to view the page we are getting many 500 errors and broken image links.

Looking at Confluence logs we are getting...

-- traceId: 7070f619fcd73b1c

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: NTFS ADS separator (':') in file name is forbidden.

at org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils.indexOfExtension(FilenameUtils.java:955)

at org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils.getExtension(FilenameUtils.java:614)

at org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils.isExtension(FilenameUtils.java:1033)

Any attempt to view the image gets...

Is there any way to rapidly convert these old images or even extract these old images so we can resave them with better naming conventions?

Anthony Suchodolski · Answer

Hello!

Anthony, here. I'm with the Confluence Support team. I came across this post and thought I'd share this link. This may contain the solution you're looking for.

* Image attachments with a colon character (':') do not load after upgrading Confluence

I hope this is helpful!

If the article doesn't resolve the problem, I'd encourage you to open a new support ticket if you haven't already.

Regards!

Anthony S.

Henning Karl · Answer

Hi @Philip N Lightfoot

did you have any updates on this issue from your side?
We are affected by the same issue.

Kind regards

Henning

Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM · Answer

I'm not aware of anything in Confluence or with an addon that will help you bulk change these. Possibly if I spent a few hours with scriptrunner I could probably come up with something.

However, you can find the attachments in the space and edit the file name from the properties menu w/o having to download and upload new images.  From the space, click on the ... and look for the attachments, you can then look at the offending ones, and rename or delete them.