Nextcloud Android mobile 3.35.2 (don’t know if previous versions had the same problem) fails to download files if the parent directory begins with an asterisk ()
Linux desktop client does not have any problem to rename directories to add an asterisk () at the beginning of the name, to upload files into those directories and to download files from dirctories with names that begin with an asterisk (*)
Very easy to answer:
Ext4 file systems (default on Debian and other Linux OS) allow almost all 8-bit characters in file and directory names, with the exception of the null character (NULL, \0) and the slash (/), which acts as a path separator. Names can be up to 255 bytes long, and special characters (such as *, ?, \) are possible.
Android does not allow the use of : * ? " \ < > | in file- and foldernames.
So its not a problem of the App but of Android.
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Maybe a message on Android APP when encountering those invalid characters on the path could be a good addition on future versions of the Android APP