Rename files on mac with random names
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#Rename files on mac with random names mac os#
For instance, some old Quicken "files" that hold financial records have long lists of stock names thatĪll use the / character (which I think is prohibited in Mac OS as well since it's used in path names). There are other names that are of files inside packages created by the developer.
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The name doesn't end with a space, begin with a period, or contain any of the prohibited characters.Īlso, there are folder names it won't allow that contain only alphabetic characters and no double spaces between words. I'm pretty sure that underscores are allowed. In skimming through the list of 1,665 files, I noticed as an example it considers the following to be a bad name:Ġ8 FEB_2010 Price Readjustment acctant.pdf The second question is specific to Windows file name rules. If that were the only problem, I can leave things as they are, provided that syncing of all the good files continues, and I'd be more careful in the future about filenames.Ģ.
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On the other hand, is it really trying to tell me that it can sync all of my files except the ones with bad names, which it will skip and will remain unsynced? That would explain why If it stops uploading files when a bad name is encountered, why didn't it stop syncing at the first bad name? Then I'd understand that even one bad file name will stop the whole process,Īnd using Onedrive would become pointless for me unless I'm prepared to check every few minutes or every hour every day of every week to see if syncing has stopped, since it still has a long way to go before all the data is uploaded. Onedrive tells me that I have 1,665 such file names. In Mac OS, some characters are allowed in file names which are not allowed in Windows. I have two questions:ġ. I discovered that uploading files stopped some time ago due to bad file names. I began by moving two large Mac OS folders to Onedrive totalling about 39GB of data. I began using Onedrive about a month ago.