Long Filenames

[Guest]

Whenever I try to back up my data (I simply do a click and drag process from one window of Windows Explorer to another), the copy process stops partway because I get a message that some filenames are too long. So I have to go back and try to figure out which files did not copy over. This is tedious and I'm sure I am missing some files somewhere along the line. How do I get the copy process to continue, even if it runs into a long filename? More importantly, how do I get the files with long filenames to copy from one drive to another without having to rename those files?

 

[PKS]

Is the destination drive you are copying the files to
using NTFS as a filesystem? Or is it FAT16 which I
believe will have problems with the long names...

-----Original Message-----
Whenever I try to back up my data (I simply do a click

and drag process from one window of Windows Explorer to
another), the copy process stops partway because I get a
message that some filenames are too long. So I have to go
back and try to figure out which files did not copy over.
This is tedious and I'm sure I am missing some files
somewhere along the line. How do I get the copy process
to continue, even if it runs into a long filename? More
importantly, how do I get the files with long filenames to
copy from one drive to another without having to rename
those files?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I recommend that you fix the cause of the problem instead
of glossing over the problem. The combined length of your
folder + file name cannot exceed about 250 characters.
Put your information inside your files, not into your file and
folder names.

I might add that the paragraph above is about 250 characters.
That's a lot of text for a file name!

Whenever I try to back up my data (I simply do a click and drag process

from one window of Windows Explorer to another), the copy process stops
partway because I get a message that some filenames are too long. So I have
to go back and try to figure out which files did not copy over. This is
tedious and I'm sure I am missing some files somewhere along the line. How
do I get the copy process to continue, even if it runs into a long filename?
More importantly, how do I get the files with long filenames to copy from
one drive to another without having to rename those files?