The System cannot find the file specified

[schul155]

I have a huge inherited problem that has illegally named files in a windows 2008 SBS server. the file names are both annoyingly deep (well over legal limit) and illegally named 'c:\xyz\hahaihaveanextraspace ' I don't know how these were originally made but I know it has to do with a mixed mac environment and potentially mismanaged conversion from mac server. I was hoping to use trim with BRC to handle the second part of the extra space. However when I do run it, I get a message
error message
Bulk Rename Utility
Item 'C:\xxx\xxx\xxx x\yyy\board notes ' could not be renamed.
Error Code: the System cannot find the file specified

Ignore this error and continue processing?

This is accessed through the GUI and selecting the files manually and trying to rename with the option Remove (5) Trim being the only selection

Any help would be great!!! Thanks!

[audiogalaxy]

I have a huge inherited problem that has illegally named files in a windows 2008 SBS server. the file names are both annoyingly deep (well over legal limit) and illegally named 'c:\xyz\hahaihaveanextraspace ' I don't know how these were originally made but I know it has to do with a mixed mac environment and potentially mismanaged conversion from mac server. I was hoping to use trim with BRC to handle the second part of the extra space. However when I do run it, I get a message
error message
Bulk Rename Utility
Item 'C:\xxx\xxx\xxx x\yyy\board notes ' could not be renamed.
Error Code: the System cannot find the file specified

Ignore this error and continue processing?

This is accessed through the GUI and selecting the files manually and trying to rename with the option Remove (5) Trim being the only selection

Any help would be great!!! Thanks!

Maybe you could help renaming (also temporairly) long director names with very short ones. Acting on a single (the first) part of a path often helps to act on the subsequen part.

If you could rename "c:\xxx\xxx\xxx" as "c:\x\x\x" maybe some operations would become possible.

But i have a question: if the problem is in the spaces ... maybe a /REPLACECI:" ":"_" could help ? It solved me a bunch of problems...