Edit: Thank you guys for your insightful answers!

  • @[email protected]
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    191 year ago

    TLDR; No

    It hasn’t been necessary in a long time, unless you’re a developer who frequently needs to type in filenames in everywhere (since the command line needs extra protection against spaces and other symbols)

    The OS (Windows, Mac, Android, etc) handles thar all for you so you don’t have to worry about it (unless you happen to use a badly-written program that doesn’t understand spaces, but this is super rare to begin with, and more protected against as time goes on)

    • jsveiga
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      71 year ago

      Even non-developers may hate spaces in filenames, when links to the file you send in a message don’t work because clicking on them uses only up to before the first space.