Re: File Naming Problem...

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"Jaren" <Jaren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|>There is a program called Better File Rename that will allow you to rename a
|>file to begin with a . which explorer will tell you is an illegal file name.
|>I recently did this and then had a hard drive crash and Im not sure if this
|>could be the cause of it. Im wondering if it may throw off the file
|>allocation tables because they are trying to allocate a file with no name,
|>just an extension.
|>Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

No, it wouldn't effect the FAT, it's the OS that has a problem with
the file naming not the HD.
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