is there an app to fix file names?

Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in the file name on my hard drive that were moved over from a Mac. When I try to sync my files with SyncBack from one hard drive to another within my windows network. I get an error that those files with the question mark can not be copied. Why and how can I even have them existing on my windows formatted hard drives containing question marks in the file names? I have both NTFS and FAT file systems on different internal and external hard drives that I am trying to copy to and fro from.

I was told that there is a Win App that needed to be used to bring Mac
files on board. Google for that or check with your PC guru. I heard
about this a Microcenter where they sell both PC and Macs. I wanted to
buy a external HD to allow copying from a Mac to a PC using
sneaker-net.
I was also told that the HD need to be formatted FAT32.
I got a 64GB Flash drive instead and it worked without problems without
using any additional application. But that was from iTunes MAC to
iTunes PC so maybe it handled any filename anomalies.

BeeJ wrote:
I was told that there is a Win App that needed to be used to bring Mac
files on board. Google for that or check with your PC guru. I heard
about this a Microcenter where they sell both PC and Macs. I wanted to
buy a external HD to allow copying from a Mac to a PC using sneaker-net.
I was also told that the HD need to be formatted FAT32.
I got a 64GB Flash drive instead and it worked without problems without
using any additional application. But that was from iTunes MAC to
iTunes PC so maybe it handled any filename anomalies.

The Mac has had FAT32 R/W for a long time.

On NTFS, it mounts partitions Read-Only. So it can read
large files off your PC NTFS volume. But it isn't allowed
to write to the volume. Exactly why isn't clear - NTFS-3G
code has been around for a while, and if Apple wanted,
they could just use a code like that. Maybe it's a
patent issue of some sort (enable writes, see
Microsoft in court). I doubt Apple was so inept, they
couldn't get writes to work reliably. That's not likely
to be the reason.

And the iTunes suggestion is a good one, because iTunes
should have been designed to work with both file environments.
Whereas Windows is hardly going to care about Macintosh issues
(except for that server software written explicitly for the purpose).

There used to be some software, for bridging the gap between
Macs and PCs, but I couldn't remember the name of it.

This one handles file content differences.

http://download.cnet.com/DataViz-Mac..._4-211382.html

By throwing MacOS 9 into the search terms, I got a few product
names on this page. But this still doesn't ring a bell, in terms
of the product I remember recommended years ago.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2973?viewlocale=en_US

You can see how old this product is.

http://www.amazon.com/Miramar-PC-Mac.../dp/B00003PNUU

"This PC-based file-moving and renaming tool makes file transfers
seamless. This utility lets users perform global file renames, add
DOS extensions, remove illegal characters, and more, for faster,
more efficient Mac to PC file transfers and Mac migrations."

Yeah, a big maybe. I'll believe it when I see it. It probably still
misses the odd problem.

On the Mac, you can avoid some problems by careful renaming. Like
not allowing copyright, trademark, or Euro symbols into your file names.
But if you download a lot of stuff, it's probably not possible to
totally avoid a messy situation - some installer could say, install
files that break the informal rules about easily transferable
file naming. And stuff like that file name length limit, that
one caught me a few times when moving a lot of files from
one machine to another. And manually going through everything
to verify file name length, was pretty time consuming.

Paul

In message , DJW
writes:
Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that
have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or
replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in the
file name on my hard drive that were moved over from a Mac. When I try
to sync my files with SyncBack from one hard drive to another within my
windows network. I get an error that those files with the question mark
can not be copied. Why and how can I even have them existing on my
windows formatted hard drives containing question marks in the file
names? I have both NTFS and FAT file systems on different internal and
external hard drives that I am trying to copy to and fro from.

Do the rogue characters appear as ?s regardless of what font you're
using?

Can you access those files with _anything_? (If only Windows Explorer:
can you move/copy them between drives or partitions, for example?)
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On 1/12/2013 1:17 PM, DJW wrote:
Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that
have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or
replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in
the file name on my hard drive that were moved over from a Mac.
When I try to sync my files with SyncBack from one hard drive to
another within my windows network. I get an error that those files
with the question mark can not be copied. Why and how can I even
have them existing on my windows formatted hard drives containing
question marks in the file names? I have both NTFS and FAT file
systems on different internal and external hard drives that I am
trying to copy to and fro from.

I found this link to a Mac/Windows file batch renamer:
http://www.sigsoftware.com/namecleaner/
--
Ed Mc
Nam Vet '66-'67
Semper Fi

On Saturday, January 12, 2013 3:17:50 PM UTC-6, DJW wrote:
Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in the file name on my hard drive that were moved over from a Mac. When I try to sync my files with SyncBack from one hard drive to another within my windows network. I get an error that those files with the question mark can not be copied. Why and how can I even have them existing on my windows formatted hard drives containing question marks in the file names? I have both NTFS and FAT file systems on different internal and external hard drives that I am trying to copy to and fro from.

On 01/12/2013 03:17 PM, DJW wrote:
Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in the file name on my hard drive that were moved over from a Mac. When I try to sync my files with SyncBack from one hard drive to another within my windows network. I get an error that those files with the question mark can not be copied. Why and how can I even have them existing on my windows formatted hard drives containing question marks in the file names? I have both NTFS and FAT file systems on different internal and external hard drives that I am trying to copy to and fro from.




First thing to so is simply schedule a chkdsk /f then reboot and let it
run. It should sort things out. If not post back.

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On Sunday, January 13, 2013 5:28:22 PM UTC-6, philo* wrote:
On 01/12/2013 03:17 PM, DJW wrote:

Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in the file name on my hard drive that were moved over from a Mac. When I try to sync my files with SyncBack from one hard drive to another within my windows network. I get an error that those files with the question mark can not be copied. Why and how can I even have them existing on my windows formatted hard drives containing question marks in the file names? I have both NTFS and FAT file systems on different internal and external hard drives that I am trying to copy to and fro from.









First thing to so is simply schedule a chkdsk /f then reboot and let it

run. It should sort things out. If not post back.

https://www.createspace.com/3707686

How do I run a chkdsk /f ? under start menu and run do I type that in or are you talking about task manager or???

Invoking a check disk [chkdsk.exe] disk-scan, is a fairly simple two-step
procedure ;

First off, you must open a "Command Prompt" window, (do that by either,
from your Start Menu;
[ "Programs" - "Accessories" "Command Prompt ") ]
... or, you can also start one by typing ; [cmd.exe] into the "Run" box
(without the [square] brackets) (and again, the "Run" box is found on your
XP "Start Menu")

Second, is the check-disk command itself: Simply type the following
command at the flashing curser in the Command Prompt window :

chkdsk c: /f

...you will then receive the following message :

Cannot lock current drive.
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

....simply respond by pressing the [Y] key and pressing the [ENTER] key.

The computer will now run a disk-check on you system-drive, the very next
time that you [re]boot your machine...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




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On Sunday, January 13, 2013 5:28:22 PM UTC-6, philo wrote:
On 01/12/2013 03:17 PM, DJW wrote:

Is there a windows XP application to find file or folder names that
have characters not allowed and either delete those characters or
replace them? I have about a thousand files with question marks in the
file name on my hard drive that were moved over from a Mac. When I try
to sync my files with SyncBack from one hard drive to another within my
windows network. I get an error that those files with the question mark
can not be copied. Why and how can I even have them existing on my
windows formatted hard drives containing question marks in the file
names? I have both NTFS and FAT file systems on different internal and
external hard drives that I am trying to copy to and fro from.









First thing to so is simply schedule a chkdsk /f then reboot and let it

run. It should sort things out. If not post back.

https://www.createspace.com/3707686

How do I run a chkdsk /f ? under start menu and run do I type that in or
are you talking about task manager or???