xp machine can't copy file from window 98 machine - filename probl

[Guest]

I am moving data from a window 98 machine to a new machine with windows xp.

XP keeps telling me it can't find a file on the windows 98 machine.

An example of the file name is:

HW 2005-2006 Rocky Neck CT Donor - Jean.htm

I have no trouble opening this on the window 98 machine (though ie won't
open it I can open it through notepad)

What has changed and what to do I need to look for?

Thank you.

 

[philo]

I am moving data from a window 98 machine to a new machine with windows xp.

XP keeps telling me it can't find a file on the windows 98 machine.

An example of the file name is:

HW 2005-2006 Rocky Neck CT Donor - Jean.htm

I have no trouble opening this on the window 98 machine (though ie won't
open it I can open it through notepad)

What has changed and what to do I need to look for?

Thank you.

 

[philo]

I am moving data from a window 98 machine to a new machine with windows xp.

XP keeps telling me it can't find a file on the windows 98 machine.

An example of the file name is:

HW 2005-2006 Rocky Neck CT Donor - Jean.htm

I have no trouble opening this on the window 98 machine (though ie won't
open it I can open it through notepad)

Try a shorted name.
on the win98 machine rename it Jean.htm

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am moving data from a window 98 machine to a new machine with
windows xp.

How are you doing this? Are the two machines networked together? How are you
moving the files?

XP keeps telling me it can't find a file on the windows 98 machine.

An example of the file name is:

HW 2005-2006 Rocky Neck CT Donor - Jean.htm

Are you perhaps trying to do this from the command prompt? It won't directly
recognize a long name with embedded spaces .

 

[James Silverton]

Hello, Ken!
You wrote on Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:48:14 -0700:

??>> I am moving data from a window 98 machine to a new machine
??>> with windows xp.

KBM> How are you doing this? Are the two machines networked
KBM> together? How are you moving the files?

??>> XP keeps telling me it can't find a file on the windows 98
??>> machine.
??>>
??>> An example of the file name is:
??>>
??>> HW 2005-2006 Rocky Neck CT Donor - Jean.htm

KBM> Are you perhaps trying to do this from the command prompt?
KBM> It won't directly recognize a long name with embedded
KBM> spaces .
??>> I have no trouble opening this on the window 98 machine
??>> (though ie won't open it I can open it through notepad)
??>>
??>> What has changed and what to do I need to look for?
??>>

If you are working at a command prompt, you could do a dir HW*
and see how the file is listed.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not

 

[JerryM \(ID\)]

Hi, Mark,

Try enclosing the long file name in double quotes.

Jerry

 

[Guest]

The machines are networked.

I am working on the xp machine, dragging directories from the 98 machine to
the xp machine.

I was able to isolate the particular file in question by removing
directories one at a time from the group of directories that I was copying
until I didn't get the error message, then copying the files from the
directory in question and seeing what the last file copied was before it
erred.



I tried opening the file across the network but similar results.

I can however create a file with this name on the xp machine!

And though this file fails "HW 2005-2006 Rocky Neck CT Donor - Jean.htm"
this file works fine: "ClaireOnline_com - Claire McCaskill for United States
Senate.htm"

I tried mapping to my window 98 machine instead of using unc w/ the same
results.

I was able to copy the file by on the 98 machine zipping the directory, then
copying the zip file to the xp machine and then copying the contents of the
zip file. I suspect copying to cd on the 98 machine and then copying from
the cd locally on the xp machine would have worked.

The only files I ultimately failed w/ are some old html pages from microsoft
showing books for mcsd classes that have tm and (c) symbols in the name

 

[JerryM \(ID\)]

Hi again, Mark,

Just to go over an alternate process,

Using XCOPY in the root directory.
Go to the directory you want copied,
Xcopy will copy all files and subfolders using: XCOPY *.*/S D:\name of
folder\
(Substitute the correct drive letter.)
(be sure to add the backslash so the folder and name will be created on the
new partition)

Jerry