Apparently file names containing certain non-alphanumeric characters are not able to be bulk renamed. I have about 35 files with all the same format, dates contained between square brackets. Another set with leading ampersand and dates contained within square brackets.
I want to eliminate the square brackets and the ampersands and add a hyphen between the date and the item name with a single space before and after the hyphen.
Example:
from: [1980] Chicago
to: 1980 - Chicago
from: @[2016] Today
to: 2016 - Today
Any ideas?