Questions tagged [filenames]
A filename (also written as two words, file name) is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file stored in a file system. Filenames are a human-friendly label for the references or pointers that operating systems use to identify files within a file system.
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Passing a filename the contains an equal sign to a shortcut?
I have a program that gets a file as a parameter: csv2xlsx.exe file.csv
And I have a shortcut to the program: csv2xlsx.lnk file.csv
Both is fine. Mostly.
If I use a filename like this: Job=7_HRZ=1_HiS....
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Which regex can I use to replace Greek capital vocals with tonos to ones without it, in Bulk Rename Utility application?
I would like to replace in a lot of filenames, the Greek capital vocals with tonos, with the ones without it:
Ά > Α
Έ > Ε
Ή > Η
Ί > Ι
Ό > Ο
Ύ > Υ
Ώ > Ω
I know how to replace them ...
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Unpacking RAR archive, but one of the parts (segments) in UPPER CASE filename and extension, any ideas about workaround for this?
For some reason, example.mpg turned into several RARs, part01.rar part02.rar etc, all the way to part22.rar, but ONE of the RARs, is this PART07.RAR (in capital letters), so the WinRar or 7-zip cannot ...
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Renaming file in a long-path in Windows 11 in GUI does not work, when programmatically it does
I have problems renaming a file in a long-path in the GUI on Windows 11 v23H2, while programmatically it can be renamed. How can I tell Windows to allow me do the renaming in the GUI?
G:\ is a google-...
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Save files with the same name in the same folder (in numerical order)
WIN11.
AFAIK it's not possible for two files with the same name to be saved in the same location (unless they don't actually share the same name), so I'm looking for a workaround.
I have two separate ...
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How do I limit Windows 11 desktop search to either filenames or file contents?
When I am doing a windows desktop search, sometimes I wish to search file names, and sometimes file contents, but never both at once. How do I limit my search to file names only? How do I limit my ...
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Rearranging parts of a filename in Windows 10 [closed]
I have over 100 photos of deep-sky objects (galaxies, Nebulae, star clusters, etc.) taken by a Seestar "smart telescope". The Seestar creates files starting with "Stacked_" ...
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Folder names and file names text wrapping in wrong position
File names and folder names on windows 10 - the text wraps down to the next line and it is visually distracting and, frankly, horrible to read.
How do I stop the text from wrapping? Letters of the ...
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How to force Windows file explorer to display files that have invalid names?
I was searching journals on a research topic. I eventually got to some old exotic site containing a zip file which according to the description contained multiple documents. However when I unzipped it ...
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Make a list of files that contain just numbers as the filename in Windows [closed]
I have a large number of files on multiple hard drives, some of which are just in a format like 1.mkv
Sometimes that 1 is actually multiple digits, but in all cases (that I'm currently looking for) it ...
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Asterisk in Windows filename
I'm trying to copy and paste the asterisk in a filename in Windows, but I got an error; I copied also the asterisk from charmap, but nothing to do.
Is there a symbol also similar to the asterisk that ...
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Windows 11, Filename of C:\Users\name was misspelt, renamed the file however when I open the command line It still shows the misspelt name [duplicate]
When setting up my laptop I misspelt Artoid as Artoi, this meant the filename of the user file was Artoi, I changed the filename as shown in the photo below:
The file is named Artoid in file explorer.
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Some files have truncated filenames with mkisofs -J -R
I have installed mkisofs 3.02a09 (i686-pc-mingw32) on Windows 10.
I'm trying to create an ISO with mkisofs but some filenames are truncated :
PS C:\tools> mkisofs -J -R -o VDI-Michelin-Editions-...
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Is there a simple way to specify whether a webp is lossy (like jpg), lossless (like png), or animated (like a gif)?
For example, is it possible to name something "file.lwebp" to explicitly designate that it is lossy, or "file.awebp" to designate it is animated? Or is there no such method, and ...
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How can I restrict filenames to only allow [A-Za-z0-9_-.] in Windows?
For reasons, I want to limit filename characters to the set [A-Za-z0-9_-.] (upper & lowercase alphabet, numerals 0 to 9, underscore, hyphen, and period). No spaces, exclamation points, @ signs, ...
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