How Do I Replace / or \ In All Folder Names and Filenames in Parent Folder and All Sub Folders

[troy]

I need to replace any occurrence of / or \ in a folder name and all sub folder names and filenames within that parent folder.

[tiffle]

What do you want to replace them with?

[troy]

ah.... how about a - or a _

[tiffle]

Try @Nige_S’s macro here:

Find and Replace

"For Each...items in a directory" actually has a "recursively" option (which I probably didn't realise last time!). Makes things a lot easier than anything I might have suggested... In which case, we'll duplicate the target folder first so it'll be easy to go back to the originals! I've also limited the operation to files ending in ".html" so we don't try editing images or something -- you could change that, or add an "or .css" with another condition, etc. It currently works by asking you to …

[ccstone]

Hey @troy,

I'd use Name Mangler myself.

-Chris

[troy]

I downloaded
Search and Replace All Files in Folder - macro
Do you know if this replaces all sub folder name and file names in the Local__FolderPath ??

[ccstone]

The For-Each is marked as recursive, so I reckon.

Test on a test folder.

[tiffle]

@troy

Do you know if this replaces all sub folder name and file names

Yes - it mentions “recursive” which is why I suggested it.

However, there’s one thing I never do with KM and that’s file/folder renaming. The Mac app I use is Name Mangler There are plenty of other apps and even command-line tools native to MacOS that you can use, but I’ve found Name Mangler to be very easy to use, powerful and incredibly fast.