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I have this SetTop Box which records a tv show onto external USB Drive.

Sometimes the TV Show has Invalid Characters (for Windows) in its filename.
Such as: Ch10-Movie: M*A*S*H-09232013.mts

Colon and Asterisk are invalid characters for filenames in Windows.

I have tried String Replacement and Multiple String Replacement.
And Take Names From List

The Log says the Filename was not changed.

Also when adding a file it seperates at the Colon saying the first part of the file is a folder and uses the rest of the filename as the Filename . That is how it is displayed in the Files window.

Has anyone done this rename and could help me know which way it could work??
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Some characters are invalid in Windows paths and should not be possible to have in files.
It can happen if the files were named in another OS (Linux, MacOSX, ...) which have different file name restrictions.
As Ant Renamer uses Windows functions, the result will be sometimes either a little random or just won't work with such file names.
You should rename these files on a system that allows such characters in the file names...

Thanks.
I will try Linux.