Ancient said:
I am looking for freeware or any windows tools that will remove
spaces/special characters from filenames in a directory. I have a large
number of files in the directory, manually renaming each each one will be
very tedious... Any suggestions?
I have a little home-made app I call "deaccenter" that should do
the job for you.
It takes a config file deaccenter.ini that has lines in it like:
á=a
â=a
ã=a
ä=a
Ã=A
¢=c
ç=c
é=e
ë=e
ê=e
è=e
Ã=i
ö=o
ô=o
ó=o
ü=o
ß=o
What it does it replace all instance of an accented char in a
filename with the specified un-accented char. In your case you
would need to have a line
=_
in de-accenter.ini, to (for example) replace a space with an
underscore.
It takes one parameter - the starting folder - and processes
*all* files in that folder and its subfolders. It does not
rename folders.
If you want to try this out, let me know and I'll e-mail this
thing to you.