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Need to remove a space from lots of Files
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Mon Nov 23, 2015 2:33 amby bulkskijoe
OK, I give up. In Windows 8.1, I need to replace LOTS of files that have a space between the last character of the name and the dot before the extension: ex. “Filename .ext” to “Filename.ext”. Nothing I try seems to work with Repl.(3), and I’m not doing any better with RegEx(1). I’m using Bulk Rename Utility 64-bit (Unicode) 2.7.1.3.
Am I asking the right folks in the right forum?
Joe
Remove a space from end of file name (space-dot-extension)
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Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:00 amby Stefan
Hi Joe,
perhaps reading that
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2034
may help?
Re: Need to remove a space from lots of Files
Posted:
Fri Nov 27, 2015 9:14 pmby bulkskijoe
Stefan, thank you for the information. I am working on application of your recommendation, but do not have much spare time so it will be a slow process. To complicate matters, along with the file names with an extra space are the same file names without the space. In one of my attempts to use your recommendation, BRU would not change the name since it sees a file with the same name that it is attempting to create. I'll keep working on it and reply when I have something more to report.
Thanks again.
Joe
Re: Need to remove a space from lots of Files
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Sat Nov 28, 2015 9:22 amby Stefan
bulkskijoe wrote:BRU would not change the name since it sees a file with the same name that it is attempting to create.
Maybe try reading the help file:
Help > Options Menu > Prevent Duplicates
This option allows to you to overcome the situation whereby a rename would fail because a file with the same name already exists.
If you try to rename a file, and there's already a file with the same name, the software will make up subsequent attempt to rename the file but with a "_1" suffix.
If this fails it will try with "_2" as the suffix, and will continue up to "_99".
The limit of 99, and the separator character (underscore, _) are currently fixed and cannot be changed.