Saving file question

[jyeh74]

I am wondering why when I save a file on one computer, it always adds _ between the words, but when I save the same file on my other computer it does not add the _

For example, I am sending myself a file called "Test File One"
I email it to myself and click to download on my desktop.
One computer will save it as "Test File One" but the other will save it as "Test_File_One". It always addes underscore. Not sure why. Both are usuing IE 8. One is Windows 7 and one is Windows XP. The Windows 7 always addes the underscore.

[Ai Haibara]

That's being done during the email process, I believe. Either your system or the server(s) handling the file is converting the spaces to underscores to be safe. (Sometimes, they'll use %## notation for characters like spaces... in that case, %20, I believe.)

Does it happen if you remove the email steps from the process?

[jyeh74]

If I use thumb drive, then the underscore goes away. Only happens with email attachments on my Windows 7 laptop. My Windows XP laptop saves it as how it is titled.

[jagabo]

Long ago spaces were not legal in file names. Some programs continue to replace spaces with underscores.

[johns0]

Winxp uses outlook express and windows 7 has no default email program so the email program(winmail?) you are using in windows 7 is saving the files that way by default