Re: Correct exotic characters and truncate filenames
John Baird
range of characters. www.jrbsoftware.com.
Whodidit will allow you to identify long paths but you will need to manually
shorten them.
John
"aaschmit" <aasc...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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> In preparation of migrating all our data (about 17 mio. files, 25
> volumes, 5 TB) from netware to linux we would like to eliminate all
> those filenames with any special characters in them (like arabic, greek
> or kyrillic characters or special symbols). Furthermore we would like to
> shorten any filenames/paths which exceed the 256-limit. I know that some
> tools like robocopy are supposed to handle such files, so we would
> probably be able to migrate. Nevertheless, since we are often
> encountering problems with backup/restore of such files the migration
> process would present a good opportunity for cleaning up.
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> Does anybody know of any tool which can browse the file system for such
> files or for too long paths and offer a comfortable way to rename them?
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