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Hi all,
In my position I (thankfully infrequently) have to assist in platform
migrations (Mac -> Windows or Windows -> Mac). Lately (and sadly)
I've had to do quite a few Mac -> Windows conversions. I use MacLink
Plus translators to groom their data files. It does a wonderful job
of dealing with FILE names, but sadly does NOTHING to check the
validity of resultant bound-for-Windowsland FOLDER names. You be
amazed (or maybe you wouldn't) how many Windows-illegal characters I
run into. There's the expected "/", but I can do a Sherlock search
for those. But what is MADDENING in nested folders containing
hundreds of files is anything with a trailing space in the
folder/file name which Windows positively hates.
Have anyone here ever dealt with this, and if so, how have YOU dealt
with it? I just plod through it all manually making changes. But it
sucks. Almost anything has to be better!
IS there anything?
Parenthetically yours,
...ROMeyn
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