diff --git a/daemon.py b/daemon.py
index 45fd969b..8b274d7f 100644
--- a/daemon.py
+++ b/daemon.py
@@ -3474,7 +3474,7 @@ class PubServer(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             removeShareConfirmParams=self.rfile.read(length).decode('utf-8')
             if '&submitYes=' in removeShareConfirmParams:
                 removeShareConfirmParams= \
-                    removeShareConfirmParams.replace('%20',' ').replace('%40','@').replace('%3A',':').replace('%2F','/').replace('%23','#').strip()
+                    removeShareConfirmParams.replace('%20',' ').replace('%40','@').replace('%3A',':').replace('%2F','/').replace('%23','#').replace('+',' ').strip()
                 shareActor=removeShareConfirmParams.split('actor=')[1]
                 if '&' in shareActor:
                     shareActor=shareActor.split('&')[0]
diff --git a/shares.py b/shares.py
index fa95a2f0..8bf30721 100644
--- a/shares.py
+++ b/shares.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def getValidSharedItemID(displayName: str) -> str:
     """Removes any invalid characters from the display name to
     produce an item ID
     """
-    return displayName.replace(' ','').replace('/','-').replace('\\','-').replace('.','_').replace('?','-').replace('\n','').replace("’","'")
+    return displayName.replace(' ','').replace('+','-').replace('/','-').replace('\\','-').replace('.','_').replace('?','-').replace('\n','').replace("’","'").replace('&','-')
 
 def removeShare(baseDir: str,nickname: str,domain: str, \
                 displayName: str) -> None: