Re: File names too long alert during copy

As I said before, this is an inherent limitation with most
Windows executables, with the exception of some
specific programs such as the ones I named.

As an alternative you can create a shared drive or a
substituted drive that points into the middle of the
excessively long path.


"Stéphane Lopez" <s.lopez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi!
I will have the same problem in my company.
I have done some tests and I realized it's the same things on Windows XP
or 2003 with the explorer or office applications.
The only answers I was able to find it's shrinking the path. But
unfortunely I can't do this, because the paths are coded.
Do any patch or anything else exist to solve this problem ?

Thanks a lot for your answers

Stéphane

(And excuse my poor english)


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"Sandy Wood" <sandy.wood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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