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Support and Feedback / Re: cannot rename files

« on: May 04, 2016, 21:32:14 »

ok, lets take this a step further maybe as workaround is there a way to automatically rename (truncate) file names that are too long? Couple days ago you explained to me how to build a search to identify files that exceed X number of characters (255). So now I have a list of 1000+ files that are too long to burn on a DVD (for archival purposes) and I need to shorten the names. I would be fine with renaming them in bulk by truncating lets say the last 105 characters because the first 150 should be sufficient to know what the file is.

is that do-able?
thanks!

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Support and Feedback / Re: cannot rename files

« on: May 04, 2016, 13:29:17 »

Do you plan on implementing it at some point down the road? I was just thinking that even the lame Windows Explorer search lets you perform actions on search results directly, so your tool being so much better should do the same. Yes/No?

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Support and Feedback / Re: cannot rename files

« on: May 04, 2016, 00:50:10 »

Hmm, so you cannot perform any action on search results directly? any reason why not?

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Support and Feedback / Re: cannot rename files

« on: May 03, 2016, 22:43:26 »

forgot to add I am in the search results window and that is where I want to make changes. I realize I can click on a file, it will then show up in the window to the right, THEN I can hit Shift-F6 to rename.

That is too many steps if I have few thousand files to rename and each one requires manual input/change.

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Support and Feedback / cannot rename files

« on: May 03, 2016, 22:38:56 »

So the shortcut for renaming files is Shift-F6. Any reason why it is not working when I click on a file then click Shift-F6 nothing happens.

Right clicking on a file also does not bring up an option to rename a file. Any idea how a basic function like rename is buried? Lol!

thanks!

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Support and Feedback / Re: find files and folders that are too long

« on: April 13, 2016, 17:54:01 »

ok that worked.

Any chance the search can be saved? Seems that i'd have to define this each time i want to search for those files.

thanks!
SR

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Support and Feedback / find files and folders that are too long

« on: April 13, 2016, 14:23:49 »

I need to search a hard drive and identify all files and folders that contains more than 255 characters. How can that be accomplished using Multi Commander?

I searched the forums and came up empty. Ultimately I'd like to be able to define the max number of characters it should find (anything greater than X).

Why do I need this? I have an old hard drive with a lot of nested folders which exceed 255 characters and I cannot burn them to a CD. I'd like to identify them all and then rename each one.

thanks
SR