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TIP OF THE FORTNIGHT
Find and remove files with long names
I’ve been using SearchMyFiles ever since you suggested it way back in Issue 565 (page 20) as a way of finding files in a disorganised hard drive. It’s one of those ingenious tools from NirSoft (www.nirsoft.net) that you often recommend, and certainly better than any Windows search tool I’ve used.
A recent update to the tool (version 3.20) lets you search for files with a name longer than a specified number of characters, which is a handy way of finding and eradicating certain files.
To download SearchMyFiles, visit then click one of the links at the bottom. You’ll need to extract it from a ZIP file
