Robocopy Folders With Ampersands In The Name

Robocopy Folders With Ampersands In The Name

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So I have a pretty basic batch script that looks at an incoming folder and based on file type moves files where I want them. Now folders that show up with \"&\" in them break it. How do you go about fixing this I couldn't find an obvious answer online.

Besides the invalid characters that OneDrive can correct for you, other characters and combinations of characters may also prevent files and folders from syncing. These other characters have special meanings when used in file names in OneDrive, SharePoint, Windows and macOS, such as \"*\" for wildcards, \"\\\" in file name paths, and names containing .lock, CON, or _vti_.

If you're syncing files and folders with OneDrive for work or school, Microsoft has a support tool that can rename additional unsupported file and folder names. Read more about the Support and Recovery Assistant. This tool will only rename files and folders that you store in OneDrive for work or school (when you're signed in with your work or school account). It doesn't rename files or folders on your OneDrive.com when you're signed in with your Microsoft account.

I have been looking for a solution to this problem for a while now. I work on old closed systems that can't have new packages installed. I don't have the rename command. Finally I wrote a script that appears to work with all keyboard entered special characters. @#$%^&*()-_=+[]{}\\;:\",' The script will rename every file and directory in the current directory. It will replace all special characters,except -_. with the _ character. The outfile= line can be modified to use a different character for replacement if desired. Replace _ with . to use the . character for example.

%%Many characters such as \\ = ( ) do not need to be escaped when they are used within a \"quoted string\" typically these are characters you might find in a filename/path. The percent character is one exception to this rule, even though under NTFS % is a valid filename character.

The $using construct is another popular way to pass local variables to a remote scriptblock. This construct allows you to reuse the existing local variables but simply prefacing the variable name with $using:. No need to worry about an $args collection nor adding a parameter block.

Keep in mind that you will need to end the destination folder name with a \\, otherwise, you will rename the file. This is also one of the useful features