Change name of all files within folder at once

[billybunter]

Hi one of our users is trying to change a file name in a folder that is on a 2003 server, when she does this it changes the name of every single file within that folder and as it does it all the files highlight in brown. She is right clicking on the file and hitting rename like you would normally but then the above happens. Is this a setting change or is there something wrong? if it is a setting it would be very useful but I have no idea.

Any clues?

Many thanks in advance

 

[Stevehewitt]

I don't know what brown is for, (green for EFS, blue for compressed), and I don't think i've seen it either. (A google doesn't help as far as I can tell)

Sounds like something wrong. You can't have multiple files in the same directory called the same thing. (assuming the file extension is the same too).
What happens if your try and do it from command line? (using REN or RENAME)

Is it just this folder? Does it apply to sub-folders? Is this over a network share or locally on the server?

More information appreciated.

Cheers,




Steve.

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