Bulk edit folder name

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hsandy

• December 26, 2017 07:32

Does anyone have experience or suggestions how to bulk edit folder names?
I have hundreds of folders which have brackets i.e. “[“ and “]” in the folder name which becomes an issue when I use Box Sync (or even Box Drive I believe), hence I want to change those characters to other like “-“ or “_”.

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  BobFlynn-IU

  • December 26, 2017 09:40

  Hi ,

   

  We have a naming convention for certain of our Box account folder trees. At one point we moved in a researcher's files from another system and he had 13K folders. We wrote a script to walk the folder tree and rename them to conform with the convention. If that would be helpful I'll ask my developer to clean it up and I can post it.

   

  Best,

   

  Bob

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  hsandy

  • December 27, 2017 02:02

  Hi ,

   

  Yes that would be very helpful and thank you in advance for sharing.

   

  Regards,

  Sandy Halim

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  BobFlynn-IU

  • January 10, 2018 13:24

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  Here you go. Let me know if it doesn't meet your needs.

   

  https://github.com/box-community/folder-tree-rename.

   

  Bob

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