We backup a MacIntosh to our Win2k server and some of the directories
and filenames have leading and/or trailing blanks in the names.
The problem is that W2k says it can't find the file no matter the
operation, e.g. renaming or deleting via an explorer window.

I have even tried a cygwin bash shell with backslashes and quotes but the
system says it can't find the files.
I tried running a disk scan but it doesn't find anything wrong with the
files.

Any ideas on how to either rename them or delete them?
Thanks for any help.

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Brian,

You can use the following syntax:

del "\\?\c:\<path_to_file_that contains a trailing space.txt> "


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"Brian V. Smith" <bvsmith@epb4.lbl.gov> wrote in message
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"Doug Allen [MSFT]" wrote:
Doug, isn't it actually:

del "\\.\c:\<path_to_file_that contains a trailing space.txt> "
^

But, perhaps '?' will work too. I've never tried it.
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Ricardo M. Urbano
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I have successfully used the syntax I gave, and it does work. I'm not sure
about the dot.

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"Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP" <rmu1@columbiaSPAM.SUCKSedu> wrote in
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"Doug Allen [MSFT]" wrote:
Oh, so then it's both, because I had never seen your syntax used before
and I have always used the '.' syntax.

Thx for the update.
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