Renaming mac files globally??

Quick responses! Since then Ionut has come back to me to let me know
that it turns out the PC archival software swapped "/" into ":". Go
figure.

But for everyone else, Christopher Payne and Dan Cheng (both at LBL)
had useful ideas for this task...

(1) If the Mac user still has the Mac version of the files, check out
the shareware application "A Better Finder Rename." It ought to be
able to help rename the files as a batch process to something
Windows-safe. [CP]

(2) Maybe writing a shell script (if the user has access to OSX and
the Terminal app) to make the
batch changes. I wrote one long ago to batch change file extensions
in a given directory to a different one (.gif to .jpg, for example).
[DC]

Hope this can help others too.

Thanks all! - Marilyn
>Hi Folks -
>
>One of our Windows support people came to me about a former Mac user
>who had used the colon character (:) in naming MANY files, and now
>they are having a terrible time transferring these files to her new
>Windows system. The user can't remember naming these files in this
>manner...another unlikely detail is that many of them apparently are
>.png or .gif files. (She had a download of the department website
>on her old system, and I can only guess these are files within the
>mirrored website. She doesn't do graphics work.)
>
>I recalled reading on either the magnet list or the LBL MUG list
>that someone had figured a way to rename several Mac files globally
>to replace a character that Windows could not accept. (Was it you,
>Tom Holub?)
>
>My search in my archives can't find that email thread. Anyone
>willing to help us, or at least point us in the right direction?
>
>I'm cc-ing my Windows-side colleague, Ionut, on this
>question--please reply to him too!
>
>- Marilyn
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