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OneDrive is not syncing multiple files with an illegal character in their filename. The character is a black dot symbol.
Screenshot of an example as I can't copy/paste the dot into text!
Can someone please help me with removing this character in a quick manner?
I ran a PowerShell script that successfully removed ! & { } ~ # % " characters, but this dot has me stumped!
I believe these files originated from a Mac.
Thanks in advance.
$Pattern = "[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]"
$mystring -replace $Pattern
for more information see here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2014/12/06/weekend-scripter-remove-non-alphabetic-characters-from-string/
regex cheatsheet: http://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html
-replace '[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]+$]' note the ^ character. I've updated my post above. Alternatively you can also just use the regex '[\W]' to get the opposite of word characters. You also don't need the second blank parameter in the -replace statement. I've also update this in the answer above.
– Jay
Jun 14 '18 at 5:16
Get-ChildItem -Path "c:\test" | Rename-Item -Path {$_.FullName} -NewName { $_.Name -replace '[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]' } Your code should look like: Get-ChildItem | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name -replace '[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]' } or Get-ChildItem | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name -replace '[\W]' } . Up to you which to use. \s is whitespace
– Jay
Jun 14 '18 at 5:31
We can remove the Unicode characters using PowerShell. Refer here
Example
$String -replace '[^\u0030-\u0039\u0041-\u005A\u0061-\u007A]+', ''
You can look up for the Unicode of the character online.
