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Exporting Image files (intermittently) doesn't work:

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I get messages back indicating the error is to do with escaping characters:

Syntax::stresc: Unknown string escape \\U.
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I am answering my own question to help out other .Net/Mathematica developers in the future.

I am using random file names (DTWERG, ERYFGJ, IYIGGD) and it turns out when Mathematica exports an image file that has a slash and followed by : b, t, n, f, r it recognises/honors the escape slash.

For example when a file name starts with an r as per the screenshots, it treats the \r as a newline, a CRLF!

Using forward slashes rather than backslashes resolved the problem:

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    $\begingroup$ This applies to Windows-based filenames in standard Mathematica functions like SetDirectory. Hit that one today myself. $\endgroup$
    – Verbeia
    Commented Apr 4, 2013 at 8:14
  • $\begingroup$ To be precise, \r is CR. LF is \n. Another way to deal with it is to escape the backslashes. $\endgroup$
    – Oleksandr R.
    Commented Jul 14, 2013 at 13:11
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Put double slashes instead of single slashes:

Not:

C:\Users\Blabla

Rather:

C:\\Users\\Blabla

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