# Add Stream File doesn't like subdirectory / character help

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/add-stream-file-doesnt-like-subdirectory-character-help/41175
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [May 22, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-stream-file-doesnt-like-subdirectory-character-help/41175 "2014-05-22T09:08:28Z")
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### Author: ![Dean\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@Dean\_Campbell](https://community.wowza.com/u/Dean_Campbell)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-stream-file-doesnt-like-subdirectory-character-help/41175/1 "2014-05-22T09:08:28Z")

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Wowza 4.0.3 is loaded on a server running SLES. We previously successfully used the following stream name path. 50/50\_mather.stream

When this is tried in ver 4 using the Add Stream File the following error is encountered.

Stream File: This field cannot contain the following characters: \<\> : / \ | ? "… ~

Is there new way to access subdirectories in ver4?

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### Author: ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/add-stream-file-doesnt-like-subdirectory-character-help/41175/2 "2014-05-22T21:10:20Z")

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The Manager is not setup at present to work with sub-folders for storing .stream files. It will work of course, and you can just add them through the file system as you’ve done with Wowza 3.

Richard