I am trying to rename a bunch of files with Chinese Characters in Windows 7 64bit and I keep getting error about.....

File name, directory name or disk partition name syntax error. (123)

So, does that means Siren 2.01 doesn't support Chinese Characters?

Thanks

I'm using Siren now for quite a long time ... thanks for this wonderful piece of software.

Unfortunately I have switched to the Windows 7 RC1 64 Bit (because I have just assembled a new computer and wanted to try this system).

Siren starts OK, but as soon as I open the "Siren - Completion" Window, the application crashes. Everything else seems to work just fine. Switching to any compatibility mode (tried XP-SP3, Win95 or "always admin") doesn't solve the problem.

Is there any possibility to check this or to provide a native 64bit version in the next time? This would be great, because otherwise I needed to switch to another tool (I tried some, but none of them makes me so happy as Siren).

Bye, Carsten

I have found an problem, i think.
Maybe this work around helps others coming here with such an problem too.

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In the INI      i have stored as current folder         an path     not existent any more.
And i had set Recursive=1

[courant]
rep=C:\CurrentFolderIsLost
recurse=1
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Problem:
I start Siren.
Since the folder isn't there any more.... Siren takes C:\ as current folder.
Since i have set recurse=1....... Siren starts to load ALL sub-folders  of C:\

I tried to press ESC to cancel this process, but this do not solve this issue.

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Solution:
Close Siren by pressing on the [X]-button  (maybe this need an second press on X)
Open the Siren.ini
Change "recurse=1"  unter  "[courant]"  to "recurse=0"
Save the Siren.ini
Start Siren again
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are parameters without an value (i.e empty) not allowed?!

i.e. if i wanna search case sensitive then

%b( "FinD","replace" , , ,1 ).%e
or
%b( "FinD","replace" ,1 , ,1 ).%e
is not enough

i have to use
%b( "FinD","replace" ,1,99,1 ).%e

(99 to find all)

But

>By default all occurrences are treated
so ,,,1 must be enough for to search case sensitive, isn't it?

Maybe i have test the wrong way or not enough tested?
If not i wanna suggest to allow empty parameter but wrote comas only like ,,,1
If it not to many work to implement this!

stefan

First, thanks for the great program.   It is very capable and useful.

I found a problem renaming files from my digital camera.  I am saving raw and jpeg photos for each shot.  If I use %ncs, the .nef file gets a "selection number," but there is no other file with the same name.  It looks like the extension is not being checked when looking for name collisions.

thanks for your time,
Max

Here is a screen shot of Siren with the problem files highlighted.
http://www.thelehmans.net/albums/postin … enshot.jpg

And here are the two files, in case they can help:
http://www.thelehmans.net/temp/20060904 … C_0021.JPG
http://www.thelehmans.net/temp/20060904 … C_0021.NEF