Removing special characters from Windows filenames

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Does anyone have a batch file or other *simple* way to remove special characters from Windows filenames? I have many files with “AT&T” in the filename, which Windows allows but our version of SharePoint does not. Thanks for any help.

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As a test, copy a few of those files into a temporary folder.
Open a CMD window, navigate to that folder and type: rename *”AT&T”*.* *BELL*.*
That should change the AT&T substring in the filename to BELL. Of course you can use something other than BELL, but whatever you use should be 4 chars in length.
Do a dir /p and make sure the results are what you expect.

If so then do the same thing in each of the folders that contain such files. This could be done in a batch file if you have more than a few.

Obviously everything should be backed up first; Murphy is lurking.

Jock

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