Following your advice, I have installed webdrive and find its great (and works for Plone2!!!). However it **still** doesn't cure my underscore problem when uploading Document types. Could it be due to a problem in the way metatags are recognised in Plones Document.py (naive newbie question here). This problem is really blocking me from getting my content into Plone without losing my original data.
Did you try to create document named Effective_date via ZMI?
If you have created this document, you should update that document via FTP without problems, even in case when creating of that name via FTP is not possible due any reason.
I probably haven't been very clear in my explanations: the document I want to upload is called 'content.html', I want to upload it to my Plone site so that it becomes a plone 'Document'. Initially it was an EasyPublisher 'EasyDocument' that had publication and archive date properties (effective_date and expiration_date respectively). In order to get Plone to recognise these properties, you have to add meta tags of type <meta name="effective_date" content=""> format, so that when you upload your object, it becomes a Plone document with these properties properly filled in. The syntax of the html file I want to upload is: <html> <head> <title>Test Document</title> <meta name="Subject" content="" /> <meta name="Publisher" content="No publisher" /> <meta name="Description" content="" /> <meta name="Contributors" content="" /> <meta name="Effective_date" content="2004-01-12 00:00:00" /> <meta name="Expiration_date" content="2005-12-12 00:00:00" /> <meta name="Type" content="Document" /> <meta name="Format" content="text/html" /> <meta name="Language" content="en" /> <meta name="Rights" content="" /> </head> <body> <p>This is the test document I want to upload by ftp to Plone</p> </body> </html> regards Marie