Guest tenfootboneless Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me? I've been given a DVD by a friend containing MP3 files, burnt on his mac. The problem is that some of the file names contain characters like & / \ * and ?, which as we all know windows won't allow. I can't rename the files because they're on the DVD. Does anyone know of a utility that would copy to Windows and replace the forbidden characters with Windows friendly ones? Sorry if this isn't the best place to post this, but I couldn't find anywhere more appropriate. Any help gratefully received.
Guest Malke Posted September 12, 2007 Posted September 12, 2007 Re: Converting Mac File Names for XP tenfootboneless wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if anyone can help me? I've been given a DVD by a friend > containing MP3 files, burnt on his mac. The problem is that some of > the file names contain characters like & / \ * and ?, which as we all > know windows won't allow. I can't rename the files because they're on > the DVD. Does anyone know of a utility that would copy to Windows and > replace the forbidden characters with Windows friendly ones? > > Sorry if this isn't the best place to post this, but I couldn't find > anywhere more appropriate. > > Any help gratefully received. > Wouldn't it just be easier for your friend to remake the DVD for you, this time naming the files more conventionally? Depending on what program your friend used to burn, there may be options to burn for Windows formats too. Toast has that ability. Otherwise, unless you can copy the files from the DVD to your hard drive and rename them there (right-click/drag/copy) you're out of luck. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest Harry Ohrn Posted September 13, 2007 Posted September 13, 2007 Re: Converting Mac File Names for XP Copy the files to your hard drive and rename them. If there are a lot of files then you could use a renaming program to do this easily. This one is free and works well http://www.1-4a.com/rename/rename-features.htm -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [shell\User] http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp "tenfootboneless" <tenfootboneless@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1189637934.829039.148590@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com... > Hi, > > I wonder if anyone can help me? I've been given a DVD by a friend > containing MP3 files, burnt on his mac. The problem is that some of > the file names contain characters like & / \ * and ?, which as we all > know windows won't allow. I can't rename the files because they're on > the DVD. Does anyone know of a utility that would copy to Windows and > replace the forbidden characters with Windows friendly ones? > > Sorry if this isn't the best place to post this, but I couldn't find > anywhere more appropriate. > > Any help gratefully received. >
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