start confluence, but the following error..
Asked by gene:

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Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: It looks like you have set the home data directory to a directory with an invalid name.

comments: author: Steven F Behnke
body: Yeah it seems like a pretty straight forward error. It can't create a path to files/folders outside of typical A-Z, 0-9 english characters.


author: gene
body: dear

It looks like you have set the home data directory to a directory with an invalid name.

-- the following: The data folder is created by me?and set confluence.home=c:/confluence/data

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author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: The non A-Z/0-9 characters above the confluence-5.9.6 don't look correct to me.

What happens if you drop to a command line (start -\> cmd) and type **cd c:\\confluence\\data** then do a **dir**?


author: Steven F Behnke
body: Hey Nic, look at the filename in the command prompt above. It looks like the path is correct but the garbage collection log has picked up characters from the default language set from the user's OS.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Argh, yes, it's the log rather than the install. That needs fixing, not the installation.


author: gene
body: dear all?I need to wait for the new version?


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No, you need to stop using broken characters in file paths.


author: gene
body: Hi,Nic where is broken characters? ?Is the following characterimage2016-3-29 17:20:32.png

but,I can't find them. can you tell me what to do, thank you very much.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: In the file name - you've somehow located it in a place that has invalid characters in the file name for the log. It looks like it might be something in the environment on your machine though. What files do you have in that directory and have you configured the logging away from the defaults?