Files with illegal filenames [closed]

Posted by Josh on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Josh
Published on 2010-01-01T22:13:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 20:59 UTC
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How to force Windows XP to rename a file with a special character?

I have a few files whose names have characters such as "?" and ":" that are forbidden by windows. I'm not sure how they managed to get there with these names, since I can't manually create files with these names. They're recovered from an HFS drive, but the tool that recovered them was running under windows and so should have been subject to the same restrictions while creating them, I would think.

Anyway... now that they're here, I can open them, but I can't move, copy, rename, or delete them. I want to delete a few of them, but most I want to save and copy to another drive. How might I go about this?

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