"!Contains an Invalid Character" Error in File Saving Window When No Characters Exist in File Name Box

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Brief description of the issue:

After setting up a flight profile (Xbox Cloud for Samsung Smart TV) and then clicking the Load/Save button to give it a name to save it, immediately below the file name box there is an error that says “!Contains an Invalid Character” even though nothing exists in the file name box yet.

It seems the error has appeared in a variety of bugs in the past unrelated to any file name. Have others run into the problem recently?

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So give a name.

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That error code prevents the link that allows ceiling to be activated.

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Provide time & date of the observed Weather issu. Problem exists no matter what time and date I choose

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:. Even if you add or change nothing but try to save a profile the problem exists

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I simply loaded the latest Xbox Cloud update of FS2020 onto my Samsung QLED TV and tried to establish a profile.

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This bug also occurs in xbox and pc.
In theory you could give to the save file but the issue comes when you are going to load it. the game crash in an unexpected . way .
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Seems to be a valid Error detection – Filename cannot be BLANK, so Blank is an invalid entry, and warns you.

One could argue that a more Accurate Error message would be “Filename cannot be Blank” , but that requires more processing to tell why the current filename is in error.

Be thankful to get any error message at all, and the system does not try to save a Blank Filename, and probably CTD in the process.

Remember that custom error message have to be done in ALL Languages that MSFS supports, so its not a trivial task to introduce additional ones.

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I had the same problem today so I troubleshot through planes and liveries etc etc etc ,and all it is is that you can’t have spaces in the text.