I have documents in a file share, and need to do a bulk renaming before uploading them to SharePoint. The reason is that SharePoint doesn't accept some special characters, like &, /, etc.
What's the easiest way to do this?
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Sign up to join this communityI have documents in a file share, and need to do a bulk renaming before uploading them to SharePoint. The reason is that SharePoint doesn't accept some special characters, like &, /, etc.
What's the easiest way to do this?
Powershell is indeed a great way to bulk rename the files. Site which gives step-by-step instructions on how this can be done:
I think Powershell would probably serve well here. You can read in the files and rename them, prior to uploading to SharePoint.