Honestly have you tested this? I've done countless upload scripts and the only thing the browser is supposed to send is the filename itself, so if you have

 
C:\Windows\My Documents\foo.jpg

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The browser should only send back 'foo.jpg'. Now of course there are exceptions, namely that evil browser made in Redmond IE 5 I believe sends the entire thing, but the '\' marks get sent with it. I get around that by doing this: 
my $filename = $cgi->param('uploadedfile');
if($filename =~ /\\/) {
     my @tmp = split(/\\/,$filename);
     $filename = pop(@tmp);
}

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In your case you could probably run that bit of code in a loop to fix all your filenames, should they have that problem.

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In reply to Re: Lost Backs\ash by cfreak
in thread Lost Backs\ash by eoin

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