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[Chris Allison]

sorry, forgot to switch to plain text mode:

You could use the linux/freebsd utility detox, compiled under cygwin
to clean up file names.

regards,

Chris

http://detox.sourceforge.net/
https://www.cygwin.com/

On 22 July 2016 at 14:44, RS <richard22j at zoho.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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regards

Chris Allison