forward slash not working

[dcayers]

Trying to ingest into folder with name, when typing the forward slash, it becomes a backslash.
{year4}\{month0}\{day0}.
Whwere am I going wrong?

[Hayo Baan]

File/folder names are not allowed to have forward slashes. Also, on operating systems other than Windows, a forward slash is the folder delimiter (the backslash on Windows). That's why it's changed to a backslash for you. Use a different character, e.g. a -. Note, the colon (:) won't work either as that is also a forbidden file/folder name character (on Windows).

[Odd Skjaeveland]

...a forward slash is the folder delimiter (the backslash on Windows). That's why it's changed to a backslash for you.

Hmm, my Windows accepts both kinds of slash as folder delimiter, but perhaps the Windows variant of PM is stricter than Windows itself is.

It is not clear to me if the OP wants to address one folder named "2019/07/20" or a first folder "2019", a second sub folder "07" and a third sub sub folder "20".

[Hayo Baan]

Hmm, my Windows accepts both kinds of slash as folder delimiter, but perhaps the Windows variant of PM is stricter than Windows itself is.

That's odd, all documentation on Windows filenames found on the internet (including the “official” documenation) mention the forward slash as forbidden part of a filename (just like e.g. <, >, :, etc., all of which are actually fine on Mac/Linux, even if a bit cumbersome for some).
My guess is that you can use it (Windows is becoming more Unix friendly in that way), but that underwater it is changed to a backslash. So it will still act as a directory level separator, not as a filename part.

It is not clear to me if the OP wants to address one folder named "2019/07/20" or a first folder "2019", a second sub folder "07" and a third sub sub folder "20".

I assumed he wanted them to form the name or otherwise he wouldn't have complained about the change to backslash.