Re: [WinMac] File migration hair-pulling

From: Darryl Lee (lee[at]darryl.com)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 16:07:58 PDT

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    > 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.

    Aw c'mon ROMeyn, give us a *hard* question :}

    There's a *ton* of these renaming utilities, both on the Windows side:
    http://www.macwindows.com/filetran.html#WinFileTools

    And on the Mac side:
    http://www.macwindows.com/filetran.html#filetools

    Way back when i had to migrate from an AppleShare to an NT server, i
    used Drop Rename, which was able to dig recursively, *and* worked on
    folder names, as well as files.

    But i've heard good things about NameCleaner, and i think Dan
    recommended something a while back, but am feeling too lazy to look it
    up.

    --Darryl

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