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I have all my music files in a \Music folder on it's own partition.
When I copy that folder to a backup drive I get a message that 'this filename is too long'.
It's referencing the revised Prokofiev symphony number 4. BUT IT DOESN"T TELL ME WHERE IT IS AND I CAN'T FIND IT.
Driving me nuts. I've looked in \new and \prokofiev and any other place it could be.
How do you find stuff like this???
"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
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This problem is called "the MAX_PATH problem" by Windows developers.
Here is a freeware called FastCopy for copying and backup that solves the problem without needing to change file names. The UI is uninspiring, but it beats the pants off anything else I've ever used for both speed and reliability. It uses a trick with the Windows Application Programming Interface which allows for arbitrarily long file and path names.
To have it remember the window position and size, enable "WindowPos Fix" and "WindowSize Fix" on the File menu.
I work in design, not in IT but do remember trying to burn DVD backups of control engineer files. Three hours into the backup on multiple DVD's - file name is too long; over and over and over.I would track it down to find something like this: PLC ControLLogix Update to Correct Power Transfer Function August 12 2002.
You can't explain it to the Windows people, the one's who grew up with the maximum 256 character total nested file path and file name. The oldtimers like me who grew up in a DOS world of 8.3 characters maximum for a file name tend to use a lot of folders to organize things.
I do agree that classical music titles can be problematic. I don't think there's an easy solution for that. I tend to rely on the album art to find what I want to play.
Edits: 01/18/15 01/18/15
This has happened to me in the past. The problem was that the music folder had a short file name relative to its volume, but the name on the backup volume was longer.
File names are limited in length. File names are not intended to be used to compose sonnets, although sometimes this seems to happen. File names are a sequences of simple names composed to produce a path. There can be limits on individual name lengths and limits on the complete path length. These can be enforced by the operating system or by applications. It is a huge PITA whenever one runs into these limitations, but this can happen.
In the past I have found it necessary to shorten the file name of the root of my music library, because a few sub directories down the path name got too long for one or more files. If one is close to a path length limit this can be a quick fix for a test to see if this is, indeed, the problem. You can try this temporarily, and then do a search to be able to read the files that were creating problems. At this point you can either change your file names (or the root or of the various high level directories or of the excessively verbose file names).
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Have you tried a Search under your entire Hard Drive?
Cut-Throat
Win7, 64bit.
I just did a search on *revised*.* and it shows me Mendelssohn revised his fourth sympony. I know Prokofiev rather famously revised his 4th symphony and I assumed that's what the 'revised symphony 4' was referring to.
"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
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