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Old 20-12-2008, 19:33   #1
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Hi everyone,

I've got a load of files on a XP system that I'm trying to FTP over to a linux server, but partially trough the files it keeps freezing the transfer which I gather is because of some of the characters within these file names..

Does anyone know of a free tool that'll autorename files so that it'll remove the weird characters..
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Old 20-12-2008, 19:40   #2
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Re: Filename tools

in the run box type CMD

Then in the DOS box type REN/?

this will give you options
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Old 20-12-2008, 19:43   #3
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Re: Filename tools

I should also add that there's about a thousand directories and approx twenty thousand files, hence I asked for a tool...
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Re: Filename tools

highlight all the files you want to rename, then right click and select rename. Type a name in and XP with renumber for you from there.
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Re: Filename tools

Bulk Rename Utility can do all sorts of renaming tasks, it looks complicated but it's easy to use, I've used it a few times, might be worth a look Kymmy.
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Re: Filename tools

seriously, XP has a bulk renamer built in.... no need to DL stuff... just highlight them all and rename the first one, XP will then rename the rest with numerical addition.
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Old 20-12-2008, 20:39   #7
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Re: Filename tools

Thanks Jo....

All the rest suggesting use the inbuilt tools it's not much good when you're just trying to remove some non-standard alphanumerics and leaving the original name intact
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Re: Filename tools

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Thanks Jo....

All the rest suggesting use the inbuilt tools it's not much good when you're just trying to remove some non-standard alphanumerics and leaving the original name intact
What non-standard alphanumerics are they? If there are only a few, you can write a script/regexp to rename them.
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Re: Filename tools

Just didn;t have the time to do that Punky but yes good suggestion...

In the end I used Jo's suggestion and also found PFrank which worked well..

Thanks for all the responses
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Re: Filename tools

Kymmy I would seriously suggest you look at downloading VB Express (or C# Express if you are a C/Java person) for stuff like this. You could have knocked up a program to do this for you recursively in about 15 lines of code (if that).
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