Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Is there a tool somewhere that will identify folders/files using this type of filename

Um, you can probably figure out some way to parse "dir /s /x z:\".

You may also be interested in: "fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1". (You have to reboot after setting this.)

Sadly, while fsutil gives you a way to set shortnames ("fsutil file setshortname z:\longfilename.txt longfi~1.txt"), it does not provide a way to erase existing ones. However, if you rename a file with a long filename with an 8.3 filename, it purges the saved short filename. Then you can rename it back. So you should be able to implement this pseudocode:

Code:
for each longfilename having a shortfilename; do
  rename longfilename tmp.tmp
  rename tmp.tmp longfilename
done

Of course, you'll want to disable8dot3 first.
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