On 25/08/2019 15.52, Ralph wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 15:38:35 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 25/08/2019 15.19, Ralph wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:37:52 +0200 (CEST) "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
I need to copy some files to an USB stick (FAT). The problem is, the files have a ":" on their names, and Thunar (XFCE) says the name is invalid, but does not offer as an option to change the name.
So the question is: do you know a file browser that does offer to change the name, or even better, changes the name automatically?
Thunar certainly has 'rename'. Select multiple files in Thunar with mouse or keyboard, right click, and choose rename. Choose 'search and replace' from the drop down box if it's showing something else when it opens, and I think you can figure it out from there.
Of course I can rename the source files, but I absolutely refuse!
I want the files to be renamed on the destination only, meaning as part of the copy operation. One of the tools does an automatic rename (Files), and another allows the single destination file to be renamed before starting the copy (gnome-commander).
I would have simply copied them to an intermediate non-fat place first, renamed them there, and then copied the renamed to the fat disk.
That's what I have done the previous time.
I don't get this... Why is this such a problem? In the time it took to write your original message the copy / rename / copy / delete the intermediate copy could have been done multiple times.
Oh, I'm actually copying the files as I write :-) But I just want to find the tool that does this automatically. There has to be more than one! I have done this before, so maybe the feature was removed or something. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)