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by rharding
04 Jun 2018, 00:14
Forum: Problems and Troubleshooting
Topic: Special Characters in File Names
Replies: 2
Views: 5593

Re: Special Characters in File Names

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 (al...
by rharding
02 Jun 2018, 05:09
Forum: Problems and Troubleshooting
Topic: Special Characters in File Names
Replies: 2
Views: 5593

Special Characters in File Names

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...
by rharding
15 Jun 2016, 03:24
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Find Files List
Replies: 2
Views: 7455

Re: Find Files List

<<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" numb...
by rharding
08 Jun 2016, 01:39
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Find Files List
Replies: 2
Views: 7455

Find Files List

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