Autocorrect illegal characters in file path?

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suburbazine

Hello,

I'm trying to sync a massive file system from one NAS to another. The problem is the files were built with a Mac, which apparently has no compunctions about putting characters into filenames that can't be parsed by Windows to follow the folder tree correctly. Is it possible to have FFS automatically detect and strip these characters from names when attempting a sync? This may be beyond the intent or scope of FFS, but it would be nice if it could edit all the existing filenames on the source before it tried to sync.

I have 551GB in 170k files, hard to hunt down and fix all the ones that don't sync.

Example (My browser won't even display them):

Cannot copy file
"X:\HOUSEHOLD\Compassion\letters\._httpswrite.compassion.comdraftprintpreview18963.pdf" to
"Y:\HOUSEHOLD\Compassion\letters\._httpswrite.compassion.comdraftprintpreview18963.pdf.ffs_tmp".

Error Code 2: The system cannot find the file specified. (CopyFileEx)