Rename caused file deletion [NOT]

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therube
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Rename caused file deletion [NOT]

Post by therube »

(In case anyone should do similar...)
Rename caused file deletion, maybe?

something like this...

had 3 file selected
F2 (Rename)

was appending a string to the file name
got the infamous "too long" (i think that what it was?)

3 box selection, maybe one was Abort?
selected that

next thing i know, file is gone

Undelete, not seeing it
LFN, path:len:>260, not seeing it

?
got the infamous "too long" (i think that what it was?)
Red herring.
was appending a string to the file name
And the culprit!

The rename mask was something like: %1
And sure enough I appended a string to it, & in the process "wiped out" the file extension(s), & so with that (& since I had a filter set for particular extensions), my files "vanished".

Then came the DUH moment, set filter to Everything, then searched for the string I had appended to the file names & like DUH. Resurrected.

Mask: %1
renamed to, Mask: %1 plus my wanted appended string
With that, files "disappeared".

Search: "plus my wanted appended string"
DUH. Sigh.
rename again, this time a bit more carefully.
Done.
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