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Recovered Files with TestDisk, but File Names and Folder Structure is Bad
I used Testdisk to recover files from an internal harddrive which I connected externally to my other PC.
With Photorec all the file names are wrong and the original folder structure doesn't exist.
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Adding file name as an additional column in a .txt file?
I have multiple .txt files that I am able to combine into one big .txt file. What I'd like to do before combining is have each file name be a column inside the .txt file. The filename is a date that ...
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Escaping %’s in file-/folder-names at the command-line
Does anybody of a way to access files and directories that have a % in their name (which is valid) from the command-line? Specifically, if there are two %’s and the text between them happens to ...
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Spell Checking File Names
How can I spell check file names? My spelling isn't at all great, and I rely on MS Word, Google Chrome etc. to make sure I don't publically embarass myself with improper spelling.
How can I clean up ...
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how to remove leading whitespace from filenames/folders snow?
how do I remove leading whitespace from filenames/folders in OSX snow ?
As provided below by Lri I was able to remove trailing whitespace using this
#!/bin/bash
IFS=$'\n'
for d in {1..9}; do
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function to automatically remove special characters from file names during saving in MacOS X
I'm often creating PDF files from web pages in MacOS X (10.6) and very often I have the problem that the automatically proposed file name (based on the name of the web page) contains many special ...
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Rename photos, jpg ordering based on raw times
I have a large set of photos taken with both JPG and RAW which are named in wrong order since the camera counter reset after about half of them. While going through the JPG files I turned some of them ...
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How to find candidates of file duplicates based on a similarity of their names?
I am not searching similar images or photos (imagedupe) nor audio files!
I have a lot of media data here and I want to spot duplicates based on their file name. I know that there is fdupes, etc. but ...
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Renaming/deleting impossible filenames in Windows 7
I have some files with 'impossible filenames'. I'm not talking about special characters or anyting, but really impossible ones. (filesystem NTFS)
One file is called images\receipt.jpg (yes, this is ...
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How can zsh be configured to autocomplete directory name with camelcase matching?
Eclipse and Resharper have a nice way of navigating files.
If I have the following folders (or files) in my current directory
MyReallyLongName
MyReallyLongAndFunName
MyReallyLongAndNotReallyFunName
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OS X update results in question marks in file names [closed]
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File names in OS X appearing with question marks
I've recently updated my Mac and now some file names contain question marks when viewed in Finder or the terminal. I ...
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How to copy files containing | in the name?
In Windows 7 I can't copy the file with | in the name. Gives me an error Can not find the file. I have around 30GB of files and all contains that character. Any idea how can I copy them to another ...
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How do I use non-latin alphabet characters in a framebuffer console?
How do you guys use Linux when you have lots of files with non-Latin alphabets, or even Chinese/Japanese? I don't have a problem with Windows, because I do everything in the GUI (it's hard not to), ...
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WinSCP can't upload file or folder with blank spaces
I have created a batch file containing WinSCP commands to upload files in different folders. Now, file names and folder name contain blank spaces.
It's showing an error when I'm running the batch ...
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Why do I see all the files in sub-sub directories?
I'm using Win7, 32 bit. I have a subdirectory under Documents which has several subdirectories. Example: Documents\level1\level2. At level2 there are, lets say 10 subdirectories. In each of these ...
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Windows explorer sees different file name from cmd
I just got a new computer, and put my old hard drive (which contained Windows) in the new computer to keep my old files. I was successfully able to remove the Windows directory from this drive, but ...
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My itunes library files now start with “original” in the filename. How to fix?
Not sure what happened, but I think an app I was looking at as an alternative to iTunes at one point, may have hosed my music library.
In trying to clean up and de-dupe my music library, I have found ...
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Facebook photos: batch renaming to useful filenames [closed]
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How can I do a mass file rename in Windows?
Scenario:
I work with a journalist friend who writes and photographs for travel and art subjects. He uses his Facebook ...
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Why do I sometimes get double extension names in OS X?
Sometimes when downloading files, I end up with a file like "foo.txt.txt". Sometimes I end up with just "foo" (and then manually change the extension later).
Is this a common problem with OS X? What ...
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Uploading certain files and folders via SFTP causes names to be uppercased
I have a small set of files and folders in a directory on my computer that are causing issue. When I upload them to my web host (Dreamhost) via SFTP (using Transmit on OSX, a GUI), most files and ...
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How to remove a folder with a broken name?
I use Windows Live Mesh to keep my files backed up across many computers, but I have one folder (that I think came from a rar file), called px 2 (with what appears to be a space at the end). This file ...
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What characters are safe in cross-platform file names for Linux, Windows and OS-X
Currently, I use a YYMMDD-NAME+PAGE name for most of my files. NAME has spaces converted to underscores.
I'd like to use the YYYY-MM-DD date format, but I am not sure how to separate it from the ...
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Automatically strip invalid characters from Windows filenames
I often paste titles of PDFs into their filenames so I can easily search for them. They often have invalid characters like newlines or :, and Windows pops up a stupid error and then reverts the ...
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How do I recursively list filenames (only) in DOS/Windows? [closed]
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Get bare file names recursively in command prompt
I would like to recursively list all files in a directory, showing filenames only (without extensions and without the ...
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Shell script for batch converting video
I'm attempting to write a script for use with HandbrakeCli to convert .mkv-files to XBOX 360 compatible mp4-files.
#!/bin/bash
for f in "$@"
do
echo "$f"
HandbrakeCli -i "$f" -o ...
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Use full ascii table to file name in linux
In the Windows operating system I can use unusual characters in the file name by typing the decimal code of the character in the number pad. This way I can access all of the characters in the ...
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How to annotate files - when long filenames are not enough
I work with many files doing general data analysis.
Things I want to know about my files include:
what data is contained in the file (in long and very long descriptive, english text)?
is the file ...
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How to batch add leading zero to fix order of # filenames? (not experienced with code) [closed]
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How can I mass rename files from the command line or using a 3rd party tool?
The title says it all.
The problem is that the first nine files of a couple of hundred are ...
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TextPad problem with filenames containing non-English symbols
I'm using TextPad 5.4.2 as a main ASCII text editor tool on my Windows 7 system. I'm happy with all its features but quite unhappy with the following bug. I have an external HDD with NTFS which have ...
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While renaming, How can I disable Windows 7 highlighting the entire filename when I click'n'drag across part of it?
This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to ...
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How to extract the filename extension out of %f in script?
The windows %%f returns the full name of the file as 'filename.ext'
e.g.
for /r %%f in (*.wav) do echo %%f
Is there a way to extract the filename without the extension from %%f?
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batch-rename filenames with numbers to sort alphabetically
I want to batch-rename files containing numbers, padding the numbers with zeroes.
The goal is to sort numbered sets of files alphabetically in the correct order in any application.
In a set of files ...
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Mac OS X Symbol in filename priority
Not sure if this feature was in OS9 and under or ever made it to X or was in 9, or what.. but it used to be that if a user started a filename with a '!', then it would be listed first in Finder ...
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Stripping out illegal characters such as question marks “????” from names of my files on Windows 7
I need a simple free software program that can strip out illegal characters such as question marks ???? from names of my files on Windows 7, 64 bit and can strip them in batch/bulk
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What does a blue filename in Windows Explorer mean?
I am viewing a network share where some filenames are in blue instead of black. I am using Windows 7.
This question mentions green filenames, which indicates encrypted file.
What does a blue ...
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Which is the fastest way to replace all “underscores _” in filenames with “space” [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I mass rename files from the command line or using a 3rd party tool?
I have many PDFs of EBooks but some of them have underscores in their filenames so it ...
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Confused: does show all filename extensions actually work in Mac OS X?
Quite simply, the option in Finder prefs to show all filename extensions is checked, but sometimes when I save something, e.g. a text file, and don't explicitly specify a filename in the save dialog, ...
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Get bare file names recursively in command prompt
I ran into a little snag trying to get only the filenames (no extensions or file paths) recursively.This worked for me in the root folder:
dir /b
But when i added /s to scan recursively i also got ...
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How to get names of files spooled for printing?
I need to get names of all files spooled for printing. How can I do this in Unix?
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Should all plain text files have some sort of suffix (e.g. *.txt, *.conf)
I create many notes in plain text files, but after a while the .txt suffix I put at the end of them seems to be unnecessary typing and visual noise. Is appending .txt to plain text files a strongly ...
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how do I open a file from bash when it contains brackets
A previous developer on my project created backup copies of files using the format "filename (date time).extension" even though the project was under SVN control (don't ask!!!). I now can't open ...
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Recover ext4 filenames
I have a corrupted ext4 file system that had ~7 TiB of data on it. Using photorec, I was able to recover usable data, but all the filenames are gone. Is there a tool that would let me recover the ...
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script to convert ext4 filenames to ntfs
ext4 allows certain chars in filenames which ntfs doesn't. Is there a script to replace those chars in filenames?
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How to compare files with partially matching file names? (tools/software?)
Is there a tool/software to do this?
I use beyond compare and am advised that the regex features it provides might make this possible but I've not seen a working solution yet.
Background, I'm ...
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How to configure folder name case sensitivity in Windows 7?
I need to create files named abc.txt and ABC.txt. By default, Windows 7 will not allow this. Somebody please help me to solve.
NB: nfsadmin is not working in my system.
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Converting Filename Encoding
my operating system is Arch Linux. I am trying to extract a .zip archive that contains CJK characters in its filenames. It was most likely created on a Windows machine.
I tried the unzip utility and ...
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Tool/method to reformat filenames [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I mass rename files from the command line or using a 3rd party tool?
I get lots of files from a variety of sources whose names I need to clean up for safe ...
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Odd character string included in files download via torrent
I recently download a torrent and am curious about a part of the file name, which is about eight characters long with random numbers and letters.
Example filename of a video which I downloaded:
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How to avoid the full path being shown under an embedded document in Microsoft Word 2003?
When I embed a document inside another using Inset>Object>Create from file, the file is shown with the full path underneath, truncated by the available space so it invariably looks awful.
Is ...
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Software for batch renaming of images
I have a bunch of images downloaded from the web. I kept their original file names when I saved them.
Now I would like to reorder these images and have them renamed in a pattern like this: ...
