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<blockquote data-quote="beginner-mt" data-source="post: 1045665" data-attributes="member: 77259"><p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">Hello everyone</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">------------------------------------------------------------</p> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><p style="text-align: justify">The OS is Win10</p> </li> </ol> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><p style="text-align: justify">The file-system (also on the External hard disks) is NTFS.<br /> </p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><p style="text-align: justify">I NEVER had this problem, even with very long filenames.</p> </li> </ol> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><p style="text-align: justify">Third party apps (even Microsoft's PowerRenamer) don't help with this problem (anyway, now the filenames are short).</p> </li> </ol> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><p style="text-align: justify">I've scanned both the PC and the external HD, repeatedly, with a few apps. All clear.</p> </li> </ol> <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"><p style="text-align: justify">I used to have the same problem on computers' main drives, but a simple registry tweak (that I found online) had solved the problem on the PC. Regarding External drives, Google finds absolutely NOTHING on the internet.</p> </li> </ol> <p style="text-align: justify">----------------------------------------------------------------</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">I've got truckloads of items saved onto External hard disks.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">After lots of work on my part, their filenames are short.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">Even so, very often, I cannot rename them, or easily move them, etc.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">Such files are NOT nested inside subfolders etc etc</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">The problem persists even if/when I move files from the External HD to the PC's C-drive.</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">I often get this weird Windows message::</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">"If you change a filename extension, the file might become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?"</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">The thing is, I'm not touching, at all, the file-extension. I'm only trying to shorten (a little. or a lot) the NAME of such file(s).</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">What's going on??</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">In advance, thank you very much for your help</p> <p style="text-align: justify"></p> <p style="text-align: justify">Christian</p><p>---------------------------------------</p><p style="text-align: justify"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beginner-mt, post: 1045665, member: 77259"] [JUSTIFY] Hello everyone ------------------------------------------------------------[/JUSTIFY] [LIST=1] [*][JUSTIFY]The OS is Win10[/JUSTIFY] [/LIST] [LIST=1] [*][JUSTIFY]The file-system (also on the External hard disks) is NTFS. [/JUSTIFY] [*][JUSTIFY]I NEVER had this problem, even with very long filenames.[/JUSTIFY] [/LIST] [LIST=1] [*][JUSTIFY]Third party apps (even Microsoft's PowerRenamer) don't help with this problem (anyway, now the filenames are short).[/JUSTIFY] [/LIST] [LIST=1] [*][JUSTIFY]I've scanned both the PC and the external HD, repeatedly, with a few apps. All clear.[/JUSTIFY] [/LIST] [LIST=1] [*][JUSTIFY]I used to have the same problem on computers' main drives, but a simple registry tweak (that I found online) had solved the problem on the PC. Regarding External drives, Google finds absolutely NOTHING on the internet.[/JUSTIFY] [/LIST] [JUSTIFY]---------------------------------------------------------------- I've got truckloads of items saved onto External hard disks. After lots of work on my part, their filenames are short. Even so, very often, I cannot rename them, or easily move them, etc. Such files are NOT nested inside subfolders etc etc The problem persists even if/when I move files from the External HD to the PC's C-drive. I often get this weird Windows message:: "If you change a filename extension, the file might become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?" The thing is, I'm not touching, at all, the file-extension. I'm only trying to shorten (a little. or a lot) the NAME of such file(s). What's going on?? In advance, thank you very much for your help Christian[/JUSTIFY] --------------------------------------- [JUSTIFY][/JUSTIFY] [/QUOTE]
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