What would be a good diff tool for matching files based on name, size, etc and some degree of heuristics for fuzzy matching? I'm restoring a backup of >10TB from Google Drive, and I want to check the ...

One inherent weakness in WinRAR is its inability to handle long file names and directory structures. Attempting to extract long names from a business RAR file will ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2018. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. Can you recommend a ...

If your business works with and shares numerous files, copying file names can save a lot of time. Typing a file name is easy when the name is short, but long, complex names with special characters are ...

If you have to collect a number of files in the same folder, but want to title them in a more orderly fashion, you need to learn how to master renaming files in macOS. Sometimes, if you are putting ...

Microsoft keeps a limit of 258 characters for the name of a ‘file or sub-folder path.’ If this limit is exceeded, you might not be delete, move, or rename the sub-folder/file. In such a situation, ...

The above script will print out the name of any file it finds matching the provided string. If I pass $ to it without escaping the dollar sign, all files in the directory are returned. Using backslash ...

If you deal with lots of files (and who doesn’t?), there are surely times when you have to rename a whole bunch of them at the same time. (A classic example: a bunch of image files with ...

MLStrand56 complained to the Windows forum about Windows’ inability to save file names containing punctuation. [Email your tech questions to [email protected] or post them on the PCW Answer Line forum ...