Questions tagged [filenames]
A filename (also written as two words, file name) is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file stored in a file system. Filenames are a human-friendly label for the references or pointers that operating systems use to identify files within a file system.
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Can I make windows file explorer treat underscore (_) as a word separator (for ctrl navigation)?
I'm overhauling my folder structure and trying to come up with a good file-naming system. Underscore seems like a good field separator - less obtrusive than (-) and more portable than space.
When ...
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Microsoft Word Print/Save as PDF now “Untitled” instead of DOCX filename
Just recently my copy of Microsoft Word for Mac Version 16.72 (2021) has stopped titling filenames of PDFs when exported from the Print dialog.
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Open or create a Word DOCX file.
Hit commandP, ...
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Surface Pro 4 screenshot filename different than it used to be. How do I change it back?
I have the screenshots on my surface that are in my OneDrive Pictures folder. They are formatted like 2017-06-27.png.
The first one is 2016-01-10 but the last one I have is from August (2017-08-07). ...
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How to redirect output to file that has slash in name
I want to create a file named ./https://www.example.com, but the following doesn't work:
[ ~]$ URL="https://www.example.com"
[ ~]$ echo "Hello!" >"$URL"
bash: https://www.example.com: No such file ...
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Filename encoding for Windows and Linux
My laptop has dual boot systems, one is Windows 7, another is Arch Linux, they share a disk. And I downloaded some files into the shared disk in Arch Linux, whose filenames contain Chinese, Korean and ...
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Renaming multiple files in windows 7 and changing the IconResource field in all desktop.ini
I have multiple folders under a root directory, within each is an icon (.ico) file which acts as the icon for the parent folder.
Unfortunately, a lot of these .ico files are named "Untitled-*.ico" (...
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Change Default Naming Behavior When Copying Files - Making Revision Versions
In Windows 7, when I copy/paste a file named "project.ext" I want the result to be "project Rev.1.ext". (That part is solved by tweaking the code in this post.) In addition to that, however, I want ...
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How can I specify an /EXCLUDE file with spaces in it to xcopy?
I have tried to specify an /EXCLUDE filename with spaces in it to xcopy, but it always chokes. How can I specify such a path to xcopy without copying the /EXCLUDE files into the current directory and ...
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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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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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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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Is there a simple way to specify whether a webp is lossy (like jpg), lossless (like png), or animated (like a gif)?
For example, is it possible to name something "file.lwebp" to explicitly designate that it is lossy, or "file.awebp" to designate it is animated? Or is there no such method, and ...
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How do I print from an application to a line printer in Linux Mint?
I'm using Linux Mint and I have a BASIC interpreter that normally sends the output of LPRINT, LLIST, etc. to /dev/null. I want to send it to the line printer (network connected). BASIC has a command ...
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How to trim multiple file names using batch file
I need to trim all file names in a folder on a daily basis and therefore am searching for batch file recommendations. Any help is much appreciated!!
The numbers behind the file names are changing on a ...
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PTS timecode in milliseconds tweak to roll over at 60 seconds?
I'm using FFMPEG to extract images from an MP4. I have a large project where I need to extract a few hundred images. I've cobbled together a working solution from various sites since I'm not an FFMPEG ...
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Replace 2 of 3 hyphens in a filename with SPACE hyphen SPACE in Powershell
I have been attempting to modify the following example given for a similar question in Powershell, to match my own needs. Running the example works fine.
Please could you assist in how to change the ...
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rclone not replacing invalid characters when syncing to SD card
I'm using rclone to sync stuff to both Google Drive and my phone's SD card formatted as vFAT. I've created the test file named a*b?c: containing special characters that are in my music library. ...
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Is there a good alternative to apostrophe s in file name?
If an one file named zelda's_sword.jpg is here, is there a good character or convention to replace 's?
I know that sword_of_zelda.jpg will be good alternative but I don't want for several reasons.
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How to rename a file with a : on a MacBook?
I'm accessing a Windows HDD from my MacBook (local network). The HDD has a file with a : in it, which is not a valid character on both Windows and Mac. I wanted to rename the file from my Mac since it ...
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How to transfer files between Windows and Linux via a cloud drive without messing up the names?
Because Windows and Linux use different encodings (I think CP-1252 and UTF-8 respectively), when I upload a file in a non-ASCII language to a cloud drive from one OS then download it in the other, the ...
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Greenshot: Windows title not displayed in file name anymore
${title}-${capturetime:d"yyyy-MM-dd HH_mm_ss"}-
This is the file name system that I'm using to name files on greenshot.
The ${title} promises to name the file with the title of the window being ...
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Paths and names of Deleted files
Accidentally deleted my whole second hard drive with files on it. It was full of games and videos I just don't know which ones. What I want to know is can I find out what files I deleted? Are the file ...
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Find images with special characters on Mac
I have around 10k images and I need to find just the ones which have special characters and accents (like á, é, í, ...). The idea would be to keep those images with special characters and delete all ...
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How to remove a double file extension?
I had a terrible thing happen to Win 10 that resulted in me deleting my favor Music Folder. I was able to recover all music using Recuva. However, once all songs were restored the program added an ...
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is there a quick way to change part of a file name in every file and folder in a collection of nested folders a few layers deep?
windows or linux, either works, it's on an external drive either can read
e.g. change "version2" to "version3" in every file and folder of a project?
Though in this case i want to change patient ...
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Unable to use dashes in referential filenames, Why?
I recently setup Windows Subsystem Linux and created a symbolic link to a Windows folder in the Apache2 default server folder like so...
ln -s /mnt/c/Users/user/Desktop/folder /var/www/html
...so ...
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Cmd command. Delete a hidden file without extension by filename mask
How can I delete a hidden file without extension in the specific directory by filename mask (QWER)?
del /A:H "C:\Program Files (x86)\Test\QWER@*."
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Select a specific part of the output and use it to rename files
I'm currently sorting files I recovered from a broken filesystem. They now all have filenames that go something like this: f123123123.xls
If I run: file "f123123123.xls" it gives me a lot of ...
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Is it possible to delete, let alone see, a file called "␀" on Windows 8?
There is a file on my Mac called ␀, which is literally impossible to delete in OS X. I got access to Windows 8 and thought I could delete the file from there, but it's not even visible.
So are you ...
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Wget gives me file names such as "index.html?foo=bar", but browser always opens "index.html" file instead
I've downloaded site dump with Wget (links are converted) and a lot of files have names like this: index.html?foo=bar. The only way i can open them is to directly specify them as browser arguments. ...
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How do I locate a file / folder which is too long and bars me from uploading to OneDrive
I have a file/folder which is preventing me from uploading to OneDrive. I did not generate this file/folder and after 3 complete searches of my PC I cannot locate the file/folder. However, according ...
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How do I delete a part of a file name for a batch of files in Windows 8.1?
I have lots of files in a folder but they all start with a line of numbers and are separated from the actual file name by a "_"
For example:
123123123_filename.txt
456456456_filename2.txt
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OSX TextEdit save with the first line
Is it possible to make TextEdit save an unnamed opened file with the first line (or first word) of the text of that document?
eg:
I create a new text document in TextEdit;
write the first line as I ...
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iTunes naming pattern different on Windows and Mac
On my Windows machine iTunes renames and moves all my imported TV episodes to the following format:
TV Shows/[show]/Season [Season#]/[Season#]-[Episode# with 1 leading 0] [Episode Name]
but on my ...
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Why are filename ordering rules different on graphical/non-graphical linux programs?
Here is the output of an ls:
x-15.txt
x-1617.txt
x-2411.txt
x-24.txt
x-ae.txt
x-afag.txt
x-bdaa.txt
x-bd.txt
Note that x-1617 comes before x-24 and the same ordering rule seems to apply to the ...
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Custom copy paste. how to eliminate invalid characters from paste?
I collect articles and like having the title of the article in the filename. However, some titles contain invalid characters such as ':'. This precludes a simple, and quick, copy paste operation to ...
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Can part of a file name be used as a hyperlink?
I have created a word document using Word 2010. The file name is broken into 2 parts, I have the start which is an alphanumeric code (that changes every time I make a change to the document by me), ...
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Does Exact Audio Copy support any scripting in filename construction?
In some media players including (MPC, foobar2000) it is possible to format the output of a playlist by using if control structures to select certain meta tags based on their presence, or others if ...
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"Filename is not valid or too long" and "The specified path does not exist" in one file
I have a file in a folder that I use for python programming and when I moved the folder everything would go but the file.
I don't know how it got there but when I try to delete it I get "Filename is ...
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Detecting short filename usage
In the process of determining whether or not to disable 8.3 filenames on an NTFS volume which is only ever accessed by 64-bit Windows. Since 64-bit Windows does not support 16-bit applications, 16-bit ...
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how to tar files with long name/long path
When I tar files with long path name, the file name is converted to "637",
and the file doesn't exists in the packing file.
I try to use gtar, with no successful.
Do I need specific version of tar/...
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Zend studio can't open files with long name?
It fails to open such files:
f83ac0fa419a277bec5820ab6298a688d0cd69f8.file.header_xxx_new.tpl.php
Which can be opened in other text editors like editplus.
Zend Studio
Professional Edition
Build ID:...
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Windows 7: "Hide file names" for all files?
So, I just discovered that you can hide the file names of pictures and videos when you are in a thumbnail view in explorer (via View - Hide file names)... but often I have other files mixed in. This ...
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Highlight multiple PDFs in one folder
I need to find every folder with more than one PDF in a folder structure but hide the pesky hidden files such as .HResource files that infiltrate our file system.
I only want to filter folders that ...
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How to add the timestamp as a part of the generated image file name in ffmpeg
I am trying to extract png images from a video using ffmpeg and add the timestamp as a part of the generated image file name.
Please see the below command I am using for the same
ffmpeg -vcodec ...
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Folder names and file names text wrapping in wrong position
File names and folder names on windows 10 - the text wraps down to the next line and it is visually distracting and, frankly, horrible to read.
How do I stop the text from wrapping? Letters of the ...
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How to force Windows file explorer to display files that have invalid names?
I was searching journals on a research topic. I eventually got to some old exotic site containing a zip file which according to the description contained multiple documents. However when I unzipped it ...
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How can I restrict filenames to only allow [A-Za-z0-9_-.] in Windows?
For reasons, I want to limit filename characters to the set [A-Za-z0-9_-.] (upper & lowercase alphabet, numerals 0 to 9, underscore, hyphen, and period). No spaces, exclamation points, @ signs, ...
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Is there a program that can select the smallest files by size during a file conflict in windows 10
So I'm resizing some VTFs by converting them back into PNGs then sizing them down to 512x512 as maximum anything smaller stays what it is. that said I have 2 folders 1.oldmats 2.newmats. now while ...
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Excel Macro error prompting Save As dialog box with weird file name
I made a code for a friend something like this :
Sub SaveToMainData()
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
pfn = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\Backup\MainData.xlsb&...
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