Dr. Prepper

Filename prepper for SharePoint

How it works

Starting from a specified base folder it:

• recursively checks filenames for special characters or invalid strings (~ # % & { } + or .. )
  • All other disallowed characters are already disallowed by Windows.
• shows a preview of the files that will be renamed,
• then renames the files appropriately.

File/Folder names cannot contain these characters

• Tilde (~)
• Number sign (#)
• Percent (%)
• Ampersand (&)
• Asterisk (*)
• Braces ({ })
• Backslash (\)
• Colon (:)
• Angle brackets (< >)
• Question mark (?)
• Slash (/)
• Plus sign (+)
• Pipe (|)
• Quotation mark (")

There are also restrictions about the position of a character in a file/folder name:

• A file/folder name cannot contain consecutive periods (..).
• A file/folder name cannot start with a period.
• A file/folder name cannot end with a period.