FileBot

I have directories and sub-directories containing thousands of files and I would like to find and fix filenames with invalid characters only.

Is it possible to use FileBot to only 'validate' filenames without making any changes to files that do not contain invalid characters?

You mean to remove character like : and * that are fine on macOS but not on Windows?


FileBot will indeed do that for any move / rename / copy / etc operation by default:
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So you can just use Plain File Mode with {fn} current file name as format:




If you mean to rewrite the entire file path, then FileBot will likely accept folders as valid if they already exist. In this case you can have your custom format generate the absolute file path without Windows illegal characters, or rewrite file paths into a new empty folder where series / movie folders do not exist already.

I'll give that a try.
Thx.

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