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Re: Changing File Names



On 6/1/06 2:29 AM, "Jay Louvion" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 1.6.2006 5:48, entity "Jeff Grossman" <email@hidden> spake thus:
> 
>> I am moving our AppleshareIP File Server over to a Windows Server.  A lot of
>> my users files have certain characters (i.e. "/" and "\") in the file name
>> which are not valid on a windows machine.  Would I be able to write an
>> applescript that would go through each file on the file server and change
>> any of those characters to different ones?  If so, can somebody give me a
>> hand?  I am not great with applescript.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
> 
> 
> Take a look at the script provided with every Mac machine:
> /Library/Scripts/Finder Scripts/Replace Text in Item Names.scpt
> The "Library" I'm referring to is not your user folder's one, it's startup
> drive deep, next to your app folder.

Thank you very much for all of the replies.  I was not aware of that script.
It will do exactly what I want.

Thanks again.

Jeff

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