Shortening multiples different names of files for google drive

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Hope you are doing well. Thanks for writing in!

In case you are still looking for a solution, you can try the below steps:

PowerShell Script (Windows)

You can run a PowerShell script to rename folders and files in bulk. Here's a simple script to shorten folder names:

1. Open PowerShell as Administrator.

2. Run this command (it trims all folder names to the first 20 characters, but you can adjust):

3. Get-ChildItem -Directory -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name.Substring(0, [Math]::Min(20, $_.Name.Length)) }
4. If you need to shorten file names as well:
5. Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Name.Substring(0, [Math]::Min(20, $_.Name.Length)) + $_.Extension }

macOS Automator

For Mac users, you can use Automator to:

• Create a "Rename Finder Items" action to batch rename files and folders.
• Select "Truncate" to trim names down to a shorter length.

Hope this helps.