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Thank you. I have discovered the post "Filenames with hyphen clogs AS" which is reporting the same issue.

I have over 2000 medical journal articles as PDF files. The files are named <author>_<year of publication>_<title of article>.

So there are dozens of files containing Greek letters (alpha ...

If a file with special characters (for example, α-Amino-β-methylaminopropionic Acid (BMAA).pdf OR Hrdlička- 1908 - Physiological and medical observations among the I.pdf) are found using the command Find Files and Directories then it is impossible to perform any operations (open, copy, move) on them ...

<<May run into issues if you have too many selected (as in won't be able to pass XX number of names to a particular application, kind of thing)>>

This was the problem. The message is displayed in Salamander that "some selected file or directory is not available" if a "large" number of files are ...

The Find Files and Directories returns a list of all files that meet specified criteria. Is there a means of using the results of this command to perform tasks such as copying the selected files to another directory or zipping the files?

Thank you.
Richard