How to get rid of bad chrs?

[rikona]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 18:58:13 +0200
Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I'm strictly against parsing terabytes of directory entries to
> automatically rename them, before a backup was made.
> 
> Even if nothing should go wrong, no data should get lost, useful names
> might become completely useless.

< snip useful examples>

You bring up a very good point. Thanks. Yet another reason renaming is
not a good approach.

> 
> IMHO renaming the items is not the solution, it's asking for way more
> trouble. The problems rikona does experience are easy to solve. A real
> permission or item name issue doesn't exist. It much likely is caused
> by coping data from a UNIX file system that stores permissions,
> attributes and allows more chars to a crappy Microsoft file system.

I have come to agree with this, and will likely not try to do it.

Thanks for all the help!

Rik