Re: File names too long alert during copy


"Sandy Wood" <sandy.wood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0303BE76-75AC-4109-AFFA-1DC5A892A940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm in the process of migrating some files over to a SAN from our Win 2003
R2
file server. Now and then I get a prompt that I can't copy certain files
as
their file names are too long. If I'm copying from one NTFS volume to
another
why on earth would the names be too long?
--
Sandy Wood
Orange County District Attorney

The problem does not lie with the file system; it lies with
the tools you use. Most executables included with Windows
2003 are unable to deal with paths+file names exceding
255 characters. Ntbackup.exe is one exception, robocopy.exe
(Version XP010) another. Use robocopy to copy your files
and tell your users to put their information into their files, not
into their folder/file names.


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