File name to long

[Guest]

Hi there,

I use Windows 2000 Pro. I recorded a web cast. I copied the show
information from the website and pasted it into file name of the folder that
the recording created. The copied information worked just fine for the file
name. File acts like any other file on my workstation.

Next day same exorcise. The show information was very long, over 256 char.
I pasted that into the file name believing it would simply truncate to 256
char. Windows Explorer let me save that file but when I try to run the file
I get a ‘file name to long’ error. Explorer will not let me delete or move
the file. Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Colon Terminus]

The Subst command might help. Use it to create a drive letter that consists
of much of the path to the file then you should be able to delete the file.

Ex:
SUBST X: C:\very\long\path\name\etc\etc\and\so\forth
DEL X:\remainder\of\path\to\object\object.sho
SUBST X: /D