FilenameToFTP renames files and folders for a next-coming FTP-upload that way, that it replaces invalid characters with an underscore "_". German special character as ä, ö, ü, ß will be replaced with "ae", "oe", "ue" and "ss". The filename will be lowercased and the file gets the current date, so it's easier to differ from earlier uploaded files.
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Long description
On unix-based internet-servers it makes a big difference, whether the characters of a filename is lower- or uppercase.
If you upload a program as "FilenameToFTP.Zip" on a FTP-server for example, but you point in a link to "filenametoftp.zip", so the programm won't be found by a browser online, even though at your local system all seems to be alright, because your windows-system will match the right name automatically, which is not the case in the internet.
The same effect will occur with special characters as the german umlauts.
Safe characters are a-z, 0-9 and the underscore. FilenameToFTP does the job for you, to rename the file, so you can safely upload it to a ftp-server and later have no problem, they will be found, same as on your local system. For that, you should use FilenameToFTP every time, before you upload a file to your server.
In addition the program sets the file-date to the current one (so it looks like you have edited it just today the last time), so it's easier to you to differ from earlier uploaded files and to find out, what file you have to upload, when you search them with your window-find-function with date-option.
Functionality
You have 3 options, to tell FilenameToFTP, which files it should process and rename:
Icon
Drag and drop the corresponding files at the program-icon of FilenameToFTP on your window-desktop. FilenameToFtp will start, does his job and then goes away again.
You can mark, drag and drop several files at one time, too.
Title bar
For this purpose FilenameToFTP has to run. Mark the files, you want to rename in your windows-explorer and drag and drop them on the title bar of the program. FilenameToFTP will process the files, shows the status of processing and after doing the job it still runs an is prepared for the run. If you have to rename a couple of files, it's recommended to use this mode, because the program haven't to be started every time.
Context menu
You can use the function "add to context-menu" in the menu-bar (Tools) of the program to get an entry in the context-menu of files and folders. Then you can mark files in your windows-explorer, right click the mouse and choose the entry to rename the file. You can process several files, when you mark more the one file one and then do the command on the first one.
For all three kinds applies:
If you give an folder to FilenameToFTP, all files in this folder and the sub-folders in the folder will be processed. So take care care of handing over a folder to the program.
Because windows handles the start-menu as an ordinary folder, right-click on the start menu will bring up a entry with FilenameToFTP in the context menu too. If you click on this entry, the programm will comes up, but does no operation. So it's safe to start the program at this way.
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