Thanks, I'll make the leap over to '.' notation.

This was something that our IT person requested we do for the same reason, in the past issues had come about during the backup process. I just checked in with her again, and she says that she doubts it will continue to be a problem, and was just asking us to do it to be on the safe side. I'd rather have a consistent naming system that is quick to use than one that requires later generations of lab members to edit names by hand.

Glad you liked the verbose description. Better than my earlier posts when it took a couple back and forths before you knew what I was asking.

Hugo