Re: Changing File Names
Re: Changing File Names
- Subject: Re: Changing File Names
- From: Jeff Grossman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:03:22 -0700
- Thread-topic: 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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