# Changing PC name?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-pc-name/15242
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [April 5, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-pc-name/15242 "2018-04-05T12:38:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Sanehatter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sanehatter)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-pc-name/15242/1 "2018-04-05T12:38:21Z")
I’m trying to rename my character without moving him to another world, but found nothing in the save files until now. Anyone knows how to do it?
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### Author:  [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-pc-name/15242/2 "2018-04-06T11:52:58Z")
Here’s a complex method:
- Back up your save files (no need to back the “maps”, just the .sav files)
- Open a base64 converter, for example [https://www.base64encode.org/](https://www.base64encode.org/)
- Convert your new name to base64. Add `#` as the first character.
- Rename your old character’s files to the new name in base64. Keep the extensions
For example, if your old character was named “Reyes McCartney”, you would have files named “#UmV5ZXMgTWNDYXJ0bmV5”, with different extensions. If you wanted to change character name to “qwerty”, you’d encode it in base64 to “cXdlcnR5”, then rename old files to “#cXdlcnR5”.
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### Author:  [@Sanehatter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sanehatter)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-pc-name/15242/3 "2018-04-06T14:29:24Z")
This is pretty neat. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Dialo.Malison](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dialo.Malison)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-pc-name/15242/4 "2018-04-07T08:09:26Z")
Thanks Coolthulhu. This will come in handy.
But now I’m curious. Can anyone tell me why the game uses base64 for the file names instead of just plain ASCII?
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### Author:  [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-pc-name/15242/5 "2018-04-07T12:13:51Z")
Because names can have non-ascii symbols.
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### Author:  [@Dialo.Malison](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dialo.Malison)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2018, 5:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/changing-pc-name/15242/6 "2018-04-08T05:53:16Z")
Oh, that makes perfect sense. Thanks.