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Automatically strip invalid characters from Windows filenames

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20264232 views
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I often paste titles of PDFs into their filenames so I can easily search for them. They often have invalid characters like newlines or , and Windows pops up a stupid error and then reverts the filename to its original: I don't care about those characters and would be perfectly happy if it replaced …

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Fix for: Automatically strip invalid characters from Windows filenames

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I do activate this ahk code when needed for that purpose. A ctrl+alt+shift+g (or whatever you chose) will automatically copy and replace the forbidden characters by underscore (or what you want). (You don't really need to fully understand it to cust…

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