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When I copy my music folder (800 cd's worth of files) from one hard drive to another I get a message :
'The file name would be too long for the destination folder. You can shorten the file name and try again or try a location that has a shorter path'.
I'm just doing a drag and drop from one drive to another. The files I get errors on don't seem to be any longer than anything else.
Suggestions?
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Maximum Path Length Limitation
In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the following paragraphs), the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters. A local path is structured in the following order: drive letter, colon, backslash, name components separated by backslashes, and a terminating null character.
At least with Windows 7 you have the option to skip. With previous versions it would interrupt a backup session and not tell you that had happened.
Try doing a copy and paste instead of a drag and drop. I don't know if that will make any difference, but I always try something else when one thing doesn't work. I've got pretty long file names on all my WAV files and I've never had a problem with copy and paste when transferring files in Windows 7.
Good luck,
John Elison
It's not the filename. The total length of the path plus file name is too long. Don't nest the folders so deeply, or else shorten the folder names.
\music\classical\boxsets\italian baroque\disc7 cammerata koln, sammartini;concertos
Sure it's long but it's not crazy long or anything.
I'll try shortening the last folder name.
"The problem with quotes from the internet is that many of them just are just made up."
-Abraham Lincoln
Your post did not show a complete path. A complete path starts with the drive letter. If you have a long path name to start with, you can go over the edge, even though the person creating the folder structure had no problem.
I've encountered some files that came with their own directory structure in a zip file that would not expand due to path length errors. In the end, I had to create a new folder with short file name in the root directory of a volume and unzip there.
Long file names are intended to be used to write sonnets. :-)
Tony Lauck
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