Recursive folders

[jgashmore]

Somehow while using My Computer to move folders, a
particular top level folder propogated several times such
that now I have appeoximately 15 additional levels all
with the same name except for "Copy of" added. I was
attempting to copy this very folder and its contents to
an external burner but now cannot due apparently to
excessively long file names (due, I think, to the long
path). Also, I cannot even open most of the files, again,
due to long file names. Can anyone help?

 

[David H. Lipman]

If a path gets too long....use the OLD 'subst.exe' command to create a drive letter to
somewhere in the middle of the path.

For example; subst g: c:\mydocs\mydocs\mypath\mypath

Then go to the drive letter you just created and delete what is not needed.

To remove the created drive letter you can either reboot or execute (as in my example);
subst g: /d

Dave


| Somehow while using My Computer to move folders, a
| particular top level folder propogated several times such
| that now I have appeoximately 15 additional levels all
| with the same name except for "Copy of" added. I was
| attempting to copy this very folder and its contents to
| an external burner but now cannot due apparently to
| excessively long file names (due, I think, to the long
| path). Also, I cannot even open most of the files, again,
| due to long file names. Can anyone help?