Known Issues

Flash Renamer is a very stable and safe program to use. There are however a few limitations and things that are useful to know about:

• You must have permission to rename the specified files. Some user accounts may have restrictions on this. This is especially true in Windows Vista.

• The characters / * " \ ? : > < | are reserved by the filesystem and may not be used in filenames. Flash Renamer will not allow you to use these characters in filenames and they are automatically substituted with suitable characters. (Advanced users may what to change these replacement characters at the advanced tab in the settings window.)

• For some reason Flash Renamer will not work if you have enabled "Data Execution Protection" (DEP) for all processes in Windows. You should add Flash Renamer to the list of trusted programs to make it work. You can also go to the Flash Renamer program folder (typically "c:\program files\flash renamer") and remove the file "FlashRen.exe.manifest". Now it should work, although you will not get XP Theming in Flash Renamer.

• The right click shell context menu in Windows Explorer does not work on 64bit Windows version. For an explatation of the problem and a work around solution, please read this page.

• There is no support unicode characters (e.g. Asian languages). Unfortunately I am unable to do anything about this, because Microsoft has decided not to update Visual Basic 6 (the programming language that I'm using) anymore. The only solution would be a complete rewrite in another language, and that's not an option at this moment...

• Due to limitations in the system I'm using, the program can only handle a limited number of thumnails. If you run out of memory the remaining thumbnails will get blank file icons. A way around this is select smaller thumnails in the settings.

• On computers with Windows 95/98/Me, the amount of system resources is limited. Flash Renamer needs this to store the file icons and thumbnails. If many program are open, and many thumbnails are loaded, these resources may run out and the system will become unstable. I do not recommend viewing large amounts of thumbnails if you have Windows 95/98/Me. This problem does not affect systems with Windows NT4/2000/XP and later.

• If you get the error message "error reading directory structure" it might be that you are trying to read a path that is too long (because in Windows you can actually sometimes create paths that are longer than allowed...). Another possible cause is that you do not have permission to read the content of the folder.

• Files over 4GB will not get correct file sizes, due to 32bit limits in the VB6 command FileLen().

• Windows lets the user choose the font size to be used in the system. Flash Renamer must obey this, but some settings may cause display problems. Flash Renamer has been tested to work with the most common settings, "small fonts" (Windows default) and "large fonts", but if you have other settings, texts, buttons etc. may look weird and possibly be unavailable. This is however only a visual thing, and does not affect Flash Renamer otherwise.

• There have been reports that Flash Renamer does not work well with Novell networks. Since I don't have access to such a network I have not been able to confirm nor deny this. But Flash Renamer does work with the normal Windows network.