Find Files with Long Filenames
Open the controlling dialog
-
 Select
Find
| Long Filenames...
or (Alt+I,N)
from the main menu to open the dialog where you
can specify exactly which files you want to
find.
- If one or more folders are selected they will be
automatically entered into the Paths
filed of the dialog when it opens
- FileBoss remembers what has been searched in the
past even when it has been closed and then started
again so you can always select a previous entry
using the drop down list.
Specify what you want to find
- Select
the drives or paths you want to check. Multiple
paths are separated with the semi-colon (;),
comma (,) or bar character (|).
You can even specify folders to exclude by
preceding the name with a minus sign. For
complete details right-click the field in the
program.
- Then
select which length you want to find and enter
the number of character. Normally it the Path +
Name, i.e. the total length, that you will want
to find.
- Click
OK to search and create a Virtual Folder of all
matching files
In the above example FileBoss will find all
files C drive and on a network beginning with
the folder \\CorpNet\c\Backup\Design except for
any folder named Windows and all of its
subfolders. The search will be for filenames
with a total length of 255 characters or longer.
More about entering multiple paths and patterns
Both the paths and file patterns fields can accept either simple entries,
e.g.
C\Data\My Data and *.bmp or very
complex strings that specify not only what to include but also what to
exclude from a, most typically, search.
For instance both can specify multiple objects such as
C\Data\My Data ; D:\Backup\MyData
and
*.bmp ; *.gif ; *.png ; *.jpeg ; *.jpg
For a complete description of these fields either right-click the mouse
over the fields for context help from within FileBoss or see
Advanced Paths & Patterns.
Sorting by
Filename Lengths
- Make sure that the column for showing the
column for showing the filename length your are
interested in is visible (if not see the next section
for how to display the column).
- Click on the
appropriate column header to sort all entries by
the length. Click the column header again to
reverse the sort order.
- If
you are in Explore View then as you move from folder to folder the files will
remain sorted according to chosen time.
Hint:
If you are looking at folders that contain lots
of files you can and you know the extension or
possible extensions of the file(s) you are looking
for you can use a File Filter to only display
those files.
Or you can even used Advanced Filtering to only
show files with Modified times in the range you
want.
Displaying the Filename Lengths in the Contents
Window(If the filename
lengths are not already displayed in the Contents Window)
- This
works the same in both Explore Views and Virtual
File Sets.
- Move the mouse over the column headers (the
column headers are at the top of the Contents
Window and have titles like Filename, Ext and
Size.)
- Right-click the to display a list of
columns that can be displayed
- Check the boxes next to items you want
displayed.
- Click the Close Menu button.
Hint:
You can change the order of the columns by
clicking a header with the left mouse button and,
while holding the mouse button down, dragging the
column to its new location.
Rename the Files
- Note
that when renaming files to make the total path
length shorter it is often convenient to rename
one of the folder names. Just make sure that
renaming the folder won't break any of the other
programs on you system.
- Select
the files you want to rename.
- If
each of the files must be manually renamed press
Alt+Ctrl+R
to rename each file by hand. (Note that the
rename dialog conveniently separates the root
name and the extension so that you won't
accidentally change the extension of a file.)
- or
if the files can be renamed in groups, press
Ctrl+R and use
one of FileBoss's powerful renaming tools.
Click
here for more about FileBoss's powerful
renaming facilities.
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