.NET Framework - Image file names beginning with _MG* no longer seen by EW 3

Asked By LURKER

22-Jan-10 10:47 PM

I just discovered this today.  All was okay last weekend.  I installed SP1 this week.

All my site sources are file based webs.

I have an incredible number if image files that are named like _IMG_5457.JPG that have been publish with Expression Web.

Today I am updating some pages on various sites and have some images that now show a red x in the thumbnail, but the
link still works and brings up the image.

I have some loose ends with my logic trying to make sens how I got in this condition.  I have noticed that EW no longer
sees those files in the folder list!  I cannot rename then with EW.

I am wondering first, how to fix it.  Because I cannot rename the files in EW because EW cannot see them, then EW will not fix
the html for me.

The source of those names is the Canon camera.  If I shoot with RGB color space instead of Adobe color space, the files
are named with that underscore.

Any ideas or information appreciated.  I have a lot of pages with those file names in the url and I need to rename a lot
of files on many webs.

Carl

23-Jan-10 01:11 AM

do not use the leading underscore _ in file names

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression Web

23-Jan-10 05:00 AM

In EW3,  Site->Site Settings - Advanced tag
Clear the box "Hide hidden files and folders"

In EW1 and 2 the box is labelled "Show hidden files and folders".  Tick this
box.

Any file or folder with a name starting with an underline is normally hidden
in EW (except the _private folder from a FrontPage site).

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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
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23-Jan-10 01:04 PM

It worked for over a year, all of a sudden, it does not work.  I did not
do it.  The Camera names the files first.  I do rename many files, but I
append descriptive comment to the original filename when I edit for web
ready.  It helps me find the original when I later want to redo the
image for some reason or another.  I have 1.2 GB of images to search
since 1998.

Yeah, I know your right but as hind sight; only because I got slammed
with it, and I did nothing illegal, wrong or stupid (dumb... maybe).

Carl

23-Jan-10 09:09 PM

Use your favorite image editor (or IrFanview - a freebie) to batch rename
the files.

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression Web

24-Jan-10 12:30 AM

Hi,
I can rename the files in a snap from an XP command prompt.  That would require me to find and change all the urls
affected in a large amount of pages scattered across a lot of sub webs.  Several tools would help me with that.  The
sites still function.  it is just publishing that is affected in this case.

I just found a setting...
In EW 3 Site Settings, Advanced Tab,
[x] "Hide files and folders that begin with an underscore character ('_')."

Hmmm.
It is not marked.
I guess that is why it used to work.  Maybe SP1 has a bug, else MS has decide to change the design requirements
regarding that function.  ...just guessing.

Carl

24-Jan-10 03:12 AM

That box works correctly on my PC - hence my post at 10:00 am GMT yesterday.
Try ticking it (to hide the files) and click OK, then go back and clear it
again.  The toggling may cause the function to work.

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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
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