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Windows is now against Ubuntu screen captures

Asked by Del Socorro Françoise

Hello, yesterday no problem with my screen captures from Ubuntu in my double boot.
But today, Windows does not let me read, neither rename, neither move no image from gnome-screenshot, he pretends he doesn't like the ":" that shows date and time, can we replace those by "-", and he also tells name is too long, but the error is not at all due to length, but to ponctuation character in my images.
I can access same files from Windows and Ubuntu Linux (Utopic Unicorn 4.10) . Utopic will stay as if it were LTS because it is compatible with my printer, but the true LTS, is not.
So can you do something about it for me to be able to read screen captured images from both systems without renaming all?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can the files be renamed ok in Ubuntu ?

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Del Socorro Françoise (waterreedshimmer) said : 		#2

It's OK, yes files can be renamed in Ubuntu. It's double boot that created the problem. I even thought it was a virus since I coundn't even delete these images, but it wasn't. Someone suggested:
find "/media/fran/Acer/Documents and Settings/Francoise/Pictures" -iname "*.png" -exec rename 's/:/-/g' {} \;
It replaces all ":" by "-" in my Windows "Pictures" folders and sub-folders without touching *.jpg, and can be done from terminal without loosing time finding a program that will do it in /media mounted disk for folders and sub-folders.

find "/media/windows-address-until-your-folder/Pictures" -iname "*.png" -exec rename 's/:/-/g' {} \;

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Del Socorro Françoise (waterreedshimmer) said : 		#3

it's only one line, \; is inside the line.