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Windows will not allow for a colon in a path or file name, among others. If that happens the sync errors out and grinds to a stop. Was unsure if this belonged in the putio-sync or putio-sync-desktop repo so I've posted it in both.

Two changes could be made to address this:

1. Remove colons.

2. When this error is encountered, log it, and continue to the next file

This is the full list of restricted characters that can not be in a path or file URL on Windows. In practice, all of them should be removed.

• < (less than)
• > (greater than)
• : (colon)
• " (double quote)
• / (forward slash)
• \ (backslash)
• | (vertical bar or pipe)
• ? (question mark)
• * (asterisk)

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file#naming-conventions