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From: Vangelis forthnet
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 01:25

>> You could also have asked me how I handle files with colons in the names.

> In all honesty, how could I?

Sorry, my comment was not intended to cause offence.  You asked me how I 
coped with a limitation of a file system I was using.  I was merely 
commenting that there were other frustrations of Linux and Windows file 
systems affecting the sorts of files this listserver is concerned with.  I 
am sure that if programme makers are inconsiderate enough to include 
characters proscribed in Windows file names \ / : * ? " < > | in a programme 
name, get_iplayer will never copy them into a file name.  To that extent my 
comment was off topic.

If one of the proscribed characters does get copied into a file name it 
makes things very difficult.  The file cannot be moved, copied, renamed or 
deleted in Windows.  The move command with short file names is one way of 
dealing with them, but it is tedious if there is a large number of files.

I recently found a program which claimed to be able to rename such files to 
remove the forbidden characters, but while it renames correctly in its 
preview mode, in its live mode it renames some files but not others.

I have now found a suggestion that it can be done with a Powershell script, 
so I am working on that.

Another possibility is to rename them in Linux, but when I tried an old live 
Ubuntu CD it was unable to mount an external 2TByte USB FAT32 drive.