Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs Forum

Hi,
I need some utilities - (file Name shortener, and a path_name shortener
?possibly a data recovery program).
The latest post here:
"Disk editors, data recovery tools and related utilities"
http://forum.scottmueller.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1193
is 2013
Not sure what's currently recommended.

Any suggestions for a path-name / file-name shortener (truncator)
and
POSSIBLY a data recovery utility for the "intelligence- impaired / challenged" user would be appreciated!

Despite "you get what you pay for", I'd still prefer not paying.

Thank you

For renaming files I recommend Ant Renamer: http://www.antp.be/software/renamer

For an easy to use deleted file recovery program I recommend Recuva: http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Other than that you might try the other programs I recommended in my data recovery tools post. Let me know what works for you, Scott.