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[pierre.goyette]

Media Center nicely changes all special characters such as a colon to an underscore when renaming files. 

I would prefer a dash "-" instead of an underscore when renaming files/directories.  I looked all over to see if this was configurable but cannot find it.

Cna I change the replacement character and if so, where ?

TIA

[MrC]

Rename internally uses the function Clean() in mode 3.  So you have to do your own replacement before Rename gets a hold of it.  Like this, if your Rename template is:

   [Track #] - [Name]

you might do:

   replace([Track #] - [Name], :, -)

which replaces a colon character with a dash, whereby Rename is happy.  To do this for all the other characters as well, you can either nest loads of Replace() calls, or do this trick:

   replace(clean([Track #] - [Name], 3), _, -)

which Cleans() the string first, converting FS illegal characters to underscore, and the Replace() converts those to dash characters.

[pierre.goyette]

Awesome !  That did the trick.  Thanks.