Ah, yes...

So in my naive optimism I tried to copy miscellaneous data from my old 
32-Bit Windows XP machine to my new 64-bit machine - bulk, 50 GB in 
170,000 files - via network, using Windows Explorer.

Guess what happened...

Of /course/ Windows Explorer aborted halfway throught the copying 
process, this time complaining that some resulting pathname would be too 
long...


... but wait! That's not even the punchline yet: Using BeyondCompare to 
copy the remaining files, I encountered no problems whatsoever; even the 
files within the offending directory were copied ok.

And Windows Explorer displayed the directory name fine afterwards. It 
just refused to open it - or rename it, for that matter. (It did open a 
HTML page with an even longer filename though.)

Thanks, Microsoft, for designing the most essential file system 
management tool to have more severe pathname length limitations than the 
file system to be managed...

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clipka wrote:
> Guess what happened...

Robocopy is your friend. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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Directory Opus is a superb replacement for Windows Explorer.

Sure it isn't free but since installing it I have not had any of the 
problems that plague Windows Explorer.  I would never use that old thing 
by choice again.

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On 10/16/2009 9:57 AM, clipka wrote:
> Thanks, Microsoft, for designing the most essential file system
> management tool to have more severe pathname length limitations than the
> file system to be managed...

I encountered this recently too when copying MP3s between drives.

Mike

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Darren New schrieb:
> clipka wrote:
>> Guess what happened...
> 
> Robocopy is your friend. :-)

No, BeyondCompare 3 is :-)

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