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Renaming long file name with illegal characters

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Problem

Possible Duplicate: How to force Windows XP to rename a file with a special character? I have a 2GB file in windows which has a long file name I am not sure how it got the filename that way (perhaps from the download manager) Now when I try to rename it, it says How do I rename this file? I cannot ā€¦

Error Output

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Error Renaming File or Folder
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Cannot rename file: Select only one file to rename, or use MS-Dā€¦

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Fix for: Renaming long file name with illegal characters

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Find the short name of the file by using DIR /X, you should then be use REN to rename the short name to a new name.

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