I'm just gonna chalk this up to I'm not sure what's going on, and I got it to work with my weird file size hack. Since I did get my files renamed, and it is acting so weird for me and I'm not able to narrow it down, I don't want to eat up your time on this. Thanks for your help!

Ok, I have a slightly less convoluted example to show the weirdness now. 1. Original folder, file name, size, everything: file gets ignored 2. Multiply file size by 10, still original folder name: file *still* gets ignored (so not just size matters) 3. Restore original file size 3. Add an extra ...

It seems there might be an element of history at play here too? Not sure. When I copied only a few files to another folder, they worked, but that new folder had a different name (just: New folder). I got prompted to pick a show as well, and nothing was ignored. Renaming "New folder" back to the ...

I have the originals again, and I can repro some of the files being ignored again. However, I'm having a really hard time figuring out specifically what's causing it. Changing the file size seems to work for some of the files, but only when I bump their size up fairly significantly. Taking some of ...

Yeah, it's really bothering me that I can't reproduce this for you now, haha.

I'm gonna grab the original files again and see if I can repro again.

That bumps the EOF of the file without writing any data, increasing its size. You do need to have the space available for it. Afterwards, I just ran the opposite (Length / 10) on the renamed files. For a more robust version, I'd increase the EOF by a fixed 100MB or so, and then use "fsutil file ...

When I say multiply file size, I had a script doing this:

Interestingly, it must be more than file size? If I try renaming all the files again, now that they've been properly named, none of them are ignored. Unfortunately, I no longer have the original file names available now that everything has been renamed. I was going to share a script that would bump ...

Thanks for the reply. Multiplying the file size with no other change prevented them from being ignored, so I'm fairly certain it was just the file size that was the issue.

Since you asked for a sample file, is it the case that small files should not in fact be ignored by the GUI?

In the meantime, I'm just multiplying all the file sizes by 10, renaming through GUI, and then shrinking them back down...

How does one use the GUI to rename small files? The files I'm trying to rename are being ignored, and their small file size is my best guess as to why. I've tried launching the GUI with "--def minFileSize=0 minLengthMS=0" on the command line after searching on this issue, but that doesn't do the ...