Massive Search and replace.

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Like a GOOD little speller, I mispelled Reservoir with Resevoir. I have done
it MANY times! Good thing I was smart!

I have hundred's of files that are "mispelled". Is there a way I can do a
massive replacement of files to Reservoir!?

I did a search for Resevoir and I have folders with different names, but the
word Resevoir in them, as well as files with the corresponding names.

Is there any way to massively change that PART of the folder name and or the
file name!?
I don't want to rename EVERYTHING to Reservoir, just a part. Like
Local_Reservoir_Party_10_10_10.JPG OR SOMETHING :)

Thank you.
 
You may use Search to find them but you will need to "touch" each
instance yourself, since you have folders AND files that are needing
fixed. Just insert the missing "r" and then click on the next found item.
 
Matt said:
Like a GOOD little speller, I mispelled Reservoir with Resevoir. I have done
it MANY times! Good thing I was smart!

I have hundred's of files that are "mispelled". Is there a way I can do a
massive replacement of files to Reservoir!?

I did a search for Resevoir and I have folders with different names, but the
word Resevoir in them, as well as files with the corresponding names.

Is there any way to massively change that PART of the folder name and or the
file name!?
I don't want to rename EVERYTHING to Reservoir, just a part. Like
Local_Reservoir_Party_10_10_10.JPG OR SOMETHING :)

Thank you.
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If they were all in one folder, you could use this:

REN *resevoir*.* *reservoir*.*

But mostly, it's like earlier stated.. Click the name, wait, click
again to highlight the name for a rename, click just before the "v",
type "r", click the next name, wait.. etc.
 
Do you think (thinking out loud...could be dangerous!) that I could do a
batch file to rename things on my system that have the word resevoir in them
to reservoir!?
 
It would be a fairly complicated batch file and by the time you got all
the little gotchas worked out so that it worked, you would have finised
changing them in Search.
 
Matt Carter said:
Do you think (thinking out loud...could be dangerous!) that I could do a
batch file to rename things on my system that have the word resevoir in them
to reservoir!?
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In Unix or Linux, you could use the sed program with a tiny script.
That's helped out by the Unix/Linux shell's ability to expand a
wildcard on the command line into a list of files and feed them in to
the program.

Also, any such program would work only for character files. Word
files, Excel files, any other non-plain text files could get
hopelessly screwed up if you ran something like this on them.
 
Tim said:
In Unix or Linux, you could use the sed program with a tiny script.
That's helped out by the Unix/Linux shell's ability to expand a
wildcard on the command line into a list of files and feed them in to
the program.

Also, any such program would work only for character files. Word
files, Excel files, any other non-plain text files could get
hopelessly screwed up if you ran something like this on them.
Click to expand...
If it's only file names you want to rename, Google search for "Rename
Master." This program, which I believe is freeware, should allow you to
replace the misspelled word with the correct one.

Bill
 
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