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Renaming an Invalid Filename in NTFS

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Mar 15, 20269826 views
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Recently, I loaned my flash disk to one of my friends, who had Mac OS. He copied a file on it, whose name included a backslash (\). The flash disk is NTFS formatted. Windows does not allow such filenames, and neither opens the file, nor deletes it, nor lets me delete the file. There are naive appro…

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Fix for: Renaming an Invalid Filename in NTFS

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All Win32 APIs use the backslash as a directory separator. There is a slight chance that the POSIX subsystem accepts it as part of the file name, so you could try from Services for Unix. I wouldn't say using Linux to fix is "naive", if Unix was what…

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