Re: Removing Characters from file names

2016-11-20 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I believe an apple script should be able to do this if the requirement is to change the underscore to a space. You would want to test with two or three files first. repeat withcurFile in file in …whose name contains "_" setNewFileName to name of curFile set NewFileName to— would need to look

Re: Removing Characters from file names

2016-11-20 Thread Dan D.
It can be done in terminal where such tasks are common. Using one command an entire folder with titles having a character in common can be changed Here is the first title of multiple google returns: how can I rename multiple files by removing a character or string http://unix.stackexchange.

Re: Removing Characters from file names

2016-11-19 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hi, At one point I did put the artist drops in iTunes and they didn't get removed. i wonder if there's a way of doing i in terminal? God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, IOS and Windows Trainer JAWS for windows Certified - 2016 Canadian Phone: 519-962-

Re: Removing Characters from file names

2016-11-19 Thread E.T.
10,000? One by one? I get my music from Amazon and have not this issue. But, as Tim suggests, iTunes might clear the underscores. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Without H2O there is no life! ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 11/19/2016 2:02 PM, Matthew Dierckens wrote: Hi Tim, Any other option other

Re: Removing Characters from file names

2016-11-19 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hi Tim, Any other option other than iTunes? I want t avoid iTunes as much as possible, as these are just going on to an external drive. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, IOS and Windows Trainer JAWS for windows Certified - 2016 Canadian Phone: 519-

Re: Removing Characters from file names

2016-11-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Before you go through the effort of removing the characters, import one of them into iTunes. Sometimes, the underscores are placed there when illegal characters are in the title. So, the underscore will be replaced with its proper character upon import. Not always the case, but sometimes

Removing Characters from file names

2016-11-19 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hi guys, I have an album of music that has a file name like this: 17_city_harbor_come_however_you_are.mp3 I want to get rid of the underlines. I also have a folder with over 1 artist drops that I purchased from a website and they have dashes in the filename and I want to get rid of them. What