Comments on: Quickly remove special characters from file names

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:29:38 +0000

I thought it was a bit of a long shot – thanks for the update though

By: dimitar

dimitar — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:41:54 +0000

@ Jack,

The short answer is “Yes it could.” But unlike the last change this will take over a couple of hours to do. And it has been very hard for me lately to find that kind of extra time.

It will get implemented in the next versions. I just do not know when…

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:57:05 +0000

Could it also be made so that the special characters could be specified? SharePoint allows “-” and “_” in a filename

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:04:46 +0000

Thanks Dimitar, I’m just testing it now

By: dimitar

dimitar — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:45:38 +0000

@ Jack,

I have updated the program. It adds a “Dry Run” mode that will do what you requested.
The new version is 2.3b.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:54:21 +0000

Hello,

This tool could save me a lot of time migrating our fileshares onto SharePoint, however it could also cause a lot of issues at the same time!

Could you make it so that it did a read only pass of the directory and output the changes that would be made to the log file instead of actually making the changes?

thanks

Jack

By: dimitar

dimitar — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:19:51 +0000

@John,

That is the thing with programs like this… you have to be extra careful to make sure you do not rename things that should not be renamed. Extra caution is required especially when using the recursive function. That is why I did the log file! BTW… I have renamed the wrong files myself before… It happens.

Also, your choice of scripting language surprised me. I do not think that mIRC would have been my first choice. But… as long as it works…

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:25:16 +0000

Nvm i fixed it myself using this mirc script:

alias test2 {
var %i = 1, %oldf
while (%i <= $finddir(j:\,*,0)) {
%f = $finddir(j:\,*,%i)
%oldf = $read(c:\properlog.txt,w,* $+ $mid(%f,4) $+ *)
%oldf2 = $read(c:\properlog.txt,$calc($readn – 2))
if (%oldf2 && $right(%oldf2,1) == \) {
rename %f " $+ %oldf2 $+ "
;echo -a " $+ %oldf2 $+ "
}
inc %i
}
}

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:53:08 +0000

Do you have a program to undo this based on log file? It worked as intended however it renamed some important files that need their original names to function. Would go through and do it manually but its 300+ files i need renamed back.

Thanks.

By: Alin

Alin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:00:13 +0000

thank you !
i made an app which at some point created some files in xp with the character “:” in them; files of 0K in size that could not be deleted, but could be copied along with everything else making more trouble for me.
your app just vanished those files, not renamed them, and i’m more than happy with that.
just for reference, those files were created from jvm; you may think it should be impossible to create a file that cannot be accesed, deleted but can be copied and spread like a plague, yet windows is something of a pandora’s box
thanks yet again