File transfer problems with long file names

[Dennis]

Hi all, I have question that probably has an easy answer but I've
never seen it nor can I find anyone who has where I work. The user has
a high end workstation used for geospatial processing and he transfers
20 -60 - 200 gigs from one firewire external drive to another using
Windows 2000 Professional and he has admin rights on the computer. The
files they use have multiple periods and about3 extensions and if he
tries to use Windows Explorer to copy a drive full of files from one
drive to the blank one a message box comes up saying that the files
must be saved as shortened names so it truncates all of the additions
that are used to identify the version of the file. These same files
can & do get transferred on other Windows 2000 machines without this
message so I am thinking it is a simple change to make it work. I
looked at the shares and other options for the drive and couldn't
really find anything. If I share each firewire drive on the users
computer and map them in a Windows XP machine I can transfer the files
without a problem as well.

Sorry its so long, better too much info than not enough.

Thanks for any input, Dennis

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all, I have question that probably has an easy answer but I've
never seen it nor can I find anyone who has where I work. The user has
a high end workstation used for geospatial processing and he transfers
20 -60 - 200 gigs from one firewire external drive to another using
Windows 2000 Professional and he has admin rights on the computer. The
files they use have multiple periods and about3 extensions and if he
tries to use Windows Explorer to copy a drive full of files from one
drive to the blank one a message box comes up saying that the files
must be saved as shortened names so it truncates all of the additions
that are used to identify the version of the file. These same files
can & do get transferred on other Windows 2000 machines without this
message so I am thinking it is a simple change to make it work. I
looked at the shares and other options for the drive and couldn't
really find anything. If I share each firewire drive on the users
computer and map them in a Windows XP machine I can transfer the files
without a problem as well.

Sorry its so long, better too much info than not enough.

Thanks for any input, Dennis

Can you quote the verbatim error message he gets?

 

[Dennis]

Thanks for the offer, I will do that. I will have to get the message
from the user so I will post in a few days.

Thanks again, Dennis

 

[Steve Parry]

Hi all, I have question that probably has an easy answer but I've
never seen it nor can I find anyone who has where I work. The user has
a high end workstation used for geospatial processing and he transfers
20 -60 - 200 gigs from one firewire external drive to another using
Windows 2000 Professional and he has admin rights on the computer. The
files they use have multiple periods and about3 extensions and if he
tries to use Windows Explorer to copy a drive full of files from one
drive to the blank one a message box comes up saying that the files
must be saved as shortened names so it truncates all of the additions
that are used to identify the version of the file. These same files
can & do get transferred on other Windows 2000 machines without this
message so I am thinking it is a simple change to make it work. I
looked at the shares and other options for the drive and couldn't
really find anything. If I share each firewire drive on the users
computer and map them in a Windows XP machine I can transfer the files
without a problem as well.

Sorry its so long, better too much info than not enough.

Thanks for any input, Dennis

Is he placing the files into paths that are too long, I seem to recall the
limmit being 255 characters for the path and the file names