From: Chris Allison
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 22:37
To: RS
You could use the linux/freebsd utility detox, compiled under cygwin
to clean up file names.
Many thanks for the suggestion. I think it is probably easier to use Linux
directly rather than install and learn to use cygwin. detox looks a much
more powerful program than the only partially working Windows equivalent I
found here.
http://dimitar.me/quickly-remove-special-characters-from-file-names/
I found this article.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/rename.htm
From that I derived
rename -v -n 's/://' *
for a preview. For the actual rename I removed -n
I could see the external drive in File Manager but I struggled to address it
in Terminal. With the help of Linux for Dummies I used
cd /media/KINGSTON/ddd
where ddd was the name of the directory.
Even booting the live Ubuntu CD was not without problems. I used a HP
laptop which I have not booted from another device before. I couldn't see
the DVD drive in the boot menu. I went through the BIOS settings to confirm
that it was enabled. Eventually it dawned on me that Notebook update bay
was HP's name for a DVD drive.
Anyway I now have a solution which works and is a lot less effort than move
short file name.
I still don't understand how anyone can claim to have done this in a
Powershell script. If a : is included in a Get-ChildItem filter it says
Second path fragment must not be a drive or UNC name. If it is escaped as
\: Powershell says Illegal characters in path.
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