Rename Master is a third party program. Did you try look up their help site HERE? i_XpUser

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My guess is that it's not a length problem. More likely it's an illegal character somewhere in the name. I've seen that before when you download a file from a PC that uses a system other than windows. That was a long time ago and I can't remember how to get around it. Maybe someone else knows. Meanwhile I'll do some searching. Can you move the file? Sorry, I do not check for private messages

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Try this: If you can move the file, move it to an empty folder. Go to Dos, go to that folder and type: ren *.* INXS.mp3 Sorry, I do not check for private messages

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Make sure that you are in the right folder, or it could cause a catastrophe. Maybe you better type ren *.mp3 inxs.mp3 Sorry, I do not check for private messages

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Ok... XpUser: I've been going thru it, but of course, the access violation I'm getting isn't even on the net. It's "Access violation at address 00404A9E in module 'RenameMaster.exe'. Read of address 706D2E6B" if that means anything to anyone. ham30: I didn't download the files with those names. I renamed them all myself and some of these files have been on my puter for a couple years with no problem. And no, I can't either move nor delete the files. I can't rename them in DOS as there's too many spaces [I'm guessing] - I get a Syntax error. When I right click on these files, I don't get a Properties, I get a different menu that gives me the options of 'Play' [which doesn't work], 'Import into Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition', 'Add to Now Playing List', 'Add to Playlist', 'Add to Sync List', 'Add to Burn List', 'Open With', and 'Send To'. These files are ALL .mp3's. In one folder, there's 15 songs I can't rename. If I do the REN *.mp3 inxs.mp3 won't that mess up as there's more than one? In researching, I did find out you can edit your Registry so you can rename long files [courtesy of Microsux] but, it'll only take effect for anything saved AFTER the changes, won't affect anything already messed up BEFORE the changes. Figures. Another thing that's getting me... which I figure is the MAIN root of my problem... each of the long file names' attributes are set at Read-Only and Hidden and I can't change them. They both resort back to checked when I close it.

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"In one folder, there's 15 songs I can't rename. If I do the REN *.mp3 inxs.mp3 won't that mess up as there's more than one?" Yup, that's why I said to move it to an empty folder. But since you can'r move it ... I wonder if you can use a variation on that. Do a rename with the first few letters of the file name. For instance: ren inxs*.mp3 inxs.mp3 The only reason I can think of for this happening is an intermittent memory or hard drive failure at one time. If you originally named them, the file names must have somehow been corrupted. I wonder if chkdsk would be able to fix it. Have you tried a chkdsk /r ? Sorry, I do not check for private messages

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Sorry, I should have said chkdsk /f /r Sorry, I do not check for private messages

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I figured it out!! This is why I couldn't rename the songs for MY problem [may be different for anyone else]... Being a Virgo, I organize my puter like I do my house. For my music, I have the original 'My Music' folder and made an 'Our Music' folder. Music that I downloaded or uploaded went into 'My Music'. If I needed to edit songs - too much dead space at the beginning or end - they stayed there until they were done, then moved to 'Our Music'. Same with downloaded songs I hadn't listened to yet - if they're cut off, not complete or not the right song, I won't share until I make sure. Once I've listened to and/or edited them, I create band name folders inside my 'Our Music'. If I have albums then I create folders for those. Whole albums have a folder as well... so I end up with: Our Music [folder 1] > INXS [folder 2]> Complete Albums [folder 3]> Michael Hutchence [folder 4]> Solo Album [folder 5]> and then the songs [each folder being inside the previous one]. So because the songs I couldn't edit were inside a folder that were inside a folder that were inside a folder, etc... it wouldn't let me rename. When I transfered songs to the other puter, I ended up with a bunch of folders inside one with only the inner-most one having songs. I couldn't move the SONGS, but I COULD move the folder they were in: I could move each folder up one until I could move the songs from the original folder 5 into folder 1. I hope you're all following that LOL. I was moving them all around so I didn't have all these folders inside folders [I already had the folders set up on the other puter] and I wouldn't get confused. So since the previously un-renamable songs were not many folders in, I had no problem renaming them. Thanks for all your help :) :) :) :) I really appreciate it :) :)

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