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[Bohandas]

Whenever I try to transfer files from my Droid Maxx's downloads folder I keep getting one or more of four bizarre errors.

Either

1.) Only half of the selected files are copied

2.) Files that were supposed to be moved are copied instead

3.) File names are truncated. "[Fortuna] : Bask in a shower of buttons - Page 3.mht" becomes  "Bask in a shower of buttons - Page 3.mht"

4.) Windows explorer crashes completely

This is really starting to piss me off. Can someone PLEASE help me with this?

EDIT:
The truncation issue seems to have something to do with Android and Windows having different sets of allowed characters for filenames (apparently ":" is not allowed in Windows file names) (but that doesn't explain why all text prior to the illegal character is deleted as well; I suspect that either lazy programming or some stupid ass obsolete space saving kludge held over from the days when computer programs were written on punchcards is the explanation for that however). At any rate, I can'y manually change all of the occurrences; there are hundreds of files with colons in them and I can't run any kind of file name search on my android anyway, either natively or through windows explorer.

This brings up some additional follpwup questions:

Is there any program that can mass rename files am an android device (to delete all colons from filenames)?

Is there any way to search files by file name or contents on an Android device?

Is there any free file explorer for windows that will interface with Android better than Windows Explorer does?

Is there any free file explorer for android that is more stable than ES File Explorer?

EDIT:
Please respond quickly. I'm trying to free up space soon so I'll have room to take videos at my cousin's wedding this weekend.

[TheBiggerFish]

Oh geez.

May I recommed that you try asking a stackexchange site?

[Bohandas]

What's that?

[Aklyon]

Stackexchange is a question-answering site for tech. Sometimes its just a pile of programming questions though.

As a short and likely insufficient answer though, have you tried shoving all the files into an sd card and then moving them off of there instead of the phone?

[TheBiggerFish]

Stackexchange is a question-answering site for tech. Sometimes its just a pile of programming questions though.

It's broader than tech, but yeah, it's mostly known because of stackoverflow, the programming one.  There's a lot of sites.

This seems like it might be a superuser question.  Which is to say superuser.stackexchange.com I think.  I'd take a moment to make sure, though.

[Graknorke]

Just a warning, the moderators on stackexchange are on about the same level as Wikipedia's. Don't be surprised if your question gets shut down for "not a question" or something.

[TheBiggerFish]

Just a warning, the moderators on stackexchange are on about the same level as Wikipedia's. Don't be surprised if your question gets shut down for "not a question" or something.

It can't be not a question, and for crying out loud, what part of there's more than one site is hard to get?

[Bohandas]

Ok, I posted to one. Bopefully I'll hear back from someone there soon

http://superuser.com/questions/1007775/transferrig-downloaded-files-from-droid-maxx-to-pc-causes-glitches-and-sometimes

[Graknorke]

Just a warning, the moderators on stackexchange are on about the same level as Wikipedia's. Don't be surprised if your question gets shut down for "not a question" or something.

It can't be not a question, and for crying out loud, what part of there's more than one site is hard to get?

lel, who shat on your weetabix?
Anyway I meant stackoverflow, if that helps to untwist your knickers.

[TheBiggerFish]

Yeah, stackoverflow is kind of a dump for everything though.

[Bohandas]

I just went through and renamed everything with forbidden characters in it. I don't think I have ti e to wait for a response from that site. (Plus the one guy who responded wants me to post the crash dump file to Dropbox but I don;t want to make another account if I don't have to but I don't know what's in those logs and if there's anything personally identifiable so I'm not sure if I want to risk one of the comparable sites that don't make you make a private account)

[penguinofhonor]

Over the past couple weeks my monitor has occasionally tinted purple for a couple seconds. It only happened while I was playing a certain game so I thought it was that game, but this morning it happened a couple times while I was just on the internet. And the last time it didn't turn back, so my whole screen has a purple tint. So far I have only checked my monitor cables but they seem okay. I am not really sure what's happening.

[Thief^]

If you're connected via VGA, then it could be a bad cable, or bad socket, etc. VGA can cause all sorts of issues like that.

[penguinofhonor]

I am not. I believe the cable I am using is DVI-D. My monitor has HDMI and VGA ports as well so maybe it's just this port/cord? I'll try those later.

Also it has gone non-purple again. I went to work after my last post here, and when I got home and turned the monitor on it stayed purple for about a minute.

[BigD145]

Reinstall your video drivers. It could be an overheating video card.