Stamp VERSION.txt with c3ad14c

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FNu4zbdNqYpX5jAVcU31GA

Test-Login.ps1

@@ -415,8 +415,48 @@ if (-not $connected -and (Test-Path $logFile)) {
 Write-Host ""
 Write-Host ("=" * 64) -ForegroundColor Cyan
 if ($connected) {
-    Write-Host "  Login works. The account is fine - so if a script using these" -ForegroundColor Green
-    Write-Host "  same details still fails, the script is mangling one of them." -ForegroundColor Green
+    Write-Host "  Login works. These details are correct." -ForegroundColor Green
+    Write-Host ("=" * 64) -ForegroundColor Cyan
+
+    # Getting a working password into a script is its own trap, so hand back
+    # the literal to paste rather than leaving the quoting to chance.
+    $needsCare = $password -match '[\$`]'
+    if ($needsCare -or $password -match "'" -or $password -match '%') {
+        Write-Host ""
+        Write-Host "  Putting this password into a PowerShell script" -ForegroundColor Cyan
+        Write-Host ("  " + ("-" * 60)) -ForegroundColor Cyan
+        Write-Host ""
+        Write-Host "  Use exactly this line, single quotes included:" -ForegroundColor White
+        Write-Host ""
+        Write-Host "      `$Password = $("'" + ($password -replace "'", "''") + "'")" -ForegroundColor Green
+        Write-Host ""
+        if ($needsCare) {
+            Write-Host "  This password contains a `$ or a backtick. Inside DOUBLE" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "  quotes PowerShell treats that as a variable and silently" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "  sends something shorter - the login then fails even though" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "  the password is right. Single quotes send it untouched." -ForegroundColor Yellow
+        }
+        if ($password -match "'") {
+            Write-Host "  The password contains an apostrophe, so it is doubled in" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "  the line above. That is correct - it stays one character." -ForegroundColor Yellow
+        }
+        if ($password -match '%') {
+            Write-Host "  The password contains a %. That is fine in PowerShell, but" -ForegroundColor Yellow
+            Write-Host "  in a .bat file it must be written as %% instead." -ForegroundColor Yellow
+        }
+        Write-Host ""
+        Write-Host "  Safer still: keep it out of the script. Put the password on" -ForegroundColor Gray
+        Write-Host "  the first line of its own file and read it back - then no" -ForegroundColor Gray
+        Write-Host "  quoting rules apply to it at all:" -ForegroundColor Gray
+        Write-Host '      $Password = Get-Content pw.txt -TotalCount 1' -ForegroundColor Gray
+    } else {
+        Write-Host ""
+        Write-Host "  Nothing in this password needs special quoting in a script." -ForegroundColor Green
+    }
+    Write-Host ""
+    Write-Host ("=" * 64) -ForegroundColor Cyan
+    Write-Host "  If a script using these same details still fails, the script is" -ForegroundColor Green
+    Write-Host "  changing one of them on the way through." -ForegroundColor Green
 } else {
     Write-Host "  Login failed. Compare against the WinSCP window: File > Session" -ForegroundColor Yellow
     Write-Host "  > Generate Session URL/Code > .NET assembly code. That shows the" -ForegroundColor Yellow

VERSION.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-b34360c 2026-08-30 FileZilla export import
+c3ad14c 2026-08-30 password quoting guidance