My dedicated recorder caught an interesting armed robbery and capture, the problem is it generated a funky filename that Windows will not recognize. I've been unable to edit the filename so I can process the file. Any ideas?
Recorder created bad filename cannot use in Windows -- HELP
- Thread starter Omega-TI
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This may be a longshot, but try selecting all of the names at the same time. Then right-click and see if Windows will allow you to rename them without the colon.
I tried, sadly it failed. Thanks for trying though.
I may end up having to reformat the SD card. I have 14 unusable filenames, the ones below them work just fine. Just my luck that the file I want is an illegal one.It sounds like the files are on an SD card. Are you able to mount the SD card on a Linux machine? You should be able to rename the file in Linux if that is an option.
BTW: illegal characters in windows file names include
BTW: illegal characters in windows file names include
- < (less than)
- > (greater than)
- : (colon)
- " (double quote)
- / (forward slash)
- \ (backslash)
- | (vertical bar or pipe)
- ? (question mark)
- * (asterisk)
YES, I dug into the closet and pulled out a very old laptop that has Linux on it, it'll play the files, but the one file I wanted to rename did rename, but now it has a file length of ZERO and is now unusable. It's frustrating as H E double toothpick. Ah well, I guess it was not meant to be.
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