Re: Cut Long Names

de Susan Bugher 05/09/2006 06:58

shadow wrote:
> On Sun, 07 May 2006 20:41:46 -0400, Susan Bugher <sebugher@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>shadow wrote:
>>>On Sun, 07 May 2006 11:34:41 -0400, Susan Bugher <sebugher@yahoo.com>
>>>wrote:

>>>>>On Sat, 06 May 2006 17:45:19 GMT, Tramp <Jg3q2cB@Jg3q2cB.com>
>>>>>wrote:

>>>>>>http://www.replsoft.com/cutlongnames.html

> Cut Long Names 1.6b - my impressions

> Only works under Windows NT/XP
>
> No Install, simply put the executable where-ever you want it and run
> it.
>
> Does not create any registry entries of its own, nor make any changes
> to the system. It is of course added to the Registy MRU's and programs
> List which is normal behavior.

> Can only scan a partition or hard drive, cannot drill down to a single
> folder.

> It is fast and searches a 10G partition in seconds. it would take
> somewhat longer when searching through a full hard drive of the chosen
> extensions I am sure.

> I do not like the auto rename feature when one clicks on start rename,
> as one is not given a choice as to how to rename. I would recommend
> testing it on a few files first.
>
> One can use it to locate long file names, and manually rename the
> files oneself. I would be a more confortable and a lot safer doing
> that anyway. It would have been handy to include the ability to click
> on a file name and change it to your name of preference from within
> the utility but that it doesn't do this is more than likely one of the
> reasons its freeware.
>
> It does what it claims to do, doesn't have any bad side effects, and
> uses very little memory (3.1m when running) or system resources.

> Useful in checking for long files names before creating ISO's and
> burning backups to CD/DVD disc's, or any other removable media for
> that matter.

Thanks Shadow. That info is a big help. FWIW Long Filename Finder is
similar and it looks like it has better features than Cut Long Names.

Program: Long Filename Finder
Author: DC Software Design Inc. (David Ching)
Install: (n.i.)
Ware: Freeware
http://www.dcsoft.com/
http://www.dcsoft.com/products/longff/longff.htm
Version 1.1 (Apr 25, 2002) [297 KB]
http://www.dcsoft.com/ftp/longff.zip
Windows 98 / ME / 2K / XP or later

Susan
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