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Renaming/deleting impossible filenames in Windows 7

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Mar 15, 20267728 views
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I have some files with 'impossible filenames'. I'm not talking about special characters or anyting, but really impossible ones. (filesystem NTFS) One file is called (yes, this is just the filename, not a path+filename) another is called another is called (a single newline, escaped so you can see it…

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Fix for: Renaming/deleting impossible filenames in Windows 7

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By default, every file and directory under an NTFS filesystem has two names by which it can be accessed: the long filename and the short filename. Short filenames follow the 8.3 naming convention which you may be able to use to delete these files by…

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