Simple copy but getting error

[Harrison Midkiff]

Hello:

I need to copy 250 GB of date from a network drive to a USB hard drive. I
am using the normal copy/paste technique, but I am hitting a problem. The
copy goes fine until it gets to a problem file then I get an error message
"Cannot remove folder [NAME_OF_FILE]: The filename or extension is too
long". I tried doing a xcopy and ran into even more problems with the
syntax. The network share is on a Windows 2003 server.

Does anyone know of an technique to force this? Any help or advice would be
greatly appreciated.

Harrison Midkiff

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello:

I need to copy 250 GB of date from a network drive to a USB hard drive. I
am using the normal copy/paste technique, but I am hitting a problem. The
copy goes fine until it gets to a problem file then I get an error message
"Cannot remove folder [NAME_OF_FILE]: The filename or extension is too
long". I tried doing a xcopy and ran into even more problems with the
syntax. The network share is on a Windows 2003 server.

Does anyone know of an technique to force this? Any help or advice would be
greatly appreciated.

Harrison Midkiff

Let's have a look at your xcopy syntax!

 

[Harrison Midkiff]

Thanks for replying to my post.

In order to do this, this is what I did. I want to copy the 250 GB to a USB
hard drive attached to my computer. I created a shared folder on it and
gave my account full permissions to the folder. This was my syntax:

xcopy d:\data \\COMPUTER_NAME\data /E /C /G /H /Y

Any help would be great.

Hello:

I need to copy 250 GB of date from a network drive to a USB hard drive.
I
am using the normal copy/paste technique, but I am hitting a problem.
The
copy goes fine until it gets to a problem file then I get an error
message
"Cannot remove folder [NAME_OF_FILE]: The filename or extension is too
long". I tried doing a xcopy and ran into even more problems with the
syntax. The network share is on a Windows 2003 server.

Does anyone know of an technique to force this? Any help or advice would be
greatly appreciated.

Harrison Midkiff

Let's have a look at your xcopy syntax!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Some comments:
- What is the /G switch for? My version of xcopy.exe has no
such switch!
- If you get a "path too long" error message then you must
reduce the total length of path+file name to less than 250
characters. Place your information into your files, not into
the file names! You may have to apply this trick to access
folders that are located too deep inside your directory structure:

subst x: "d:\Data\Some Folder\Some SubFolder\Some SubSubFolder"

You can now manipulate your excessively long file/folder names
on drive X:.

Thanks for replying to my post.

In order to do this, this is what I did. I want to copy the 250 GB to a USB
hard drive attached to my computer. I created a shared folder on it and
gave my account full permissions to the folder. This was my syntax:

xcopy d:\data \\COMPUTER_NAME\data /E /C /G /H /Y

Any help would be great.

Hello:

I need to copy 250 GB of date from a network drive to a USB hard drive.
I
am using the normal copy/paste technique, but I am hitting a problem.
The
copy goes fine until it gets to a problem file then I get an error
message
"Cannot remove folder [NAME_OF_FILE]: The filename or extension is too
long". I tried doing a xcopy and ran into even more problems with the
syntax. The network share is on a Windows 2003 server.

Does anyone know of an technique to force this? Any help or advice

would
be

greatly appreciated.

Harrison Midkiff

Let's have a look at your xcopy syntax!

 

[Harrison Midkiff]

Thanks for replying to my post again.

The /G is Allows the copying of encrypted files to destination that does not
support encryption. I added it as a fail safe so to speak. I really want
to avoid reducing the path because the data is an archive. Any other
suggestions. I am going to check the script center next to see if there is
anything there.

Some comments:
- What is the /G switch for? My version of xcopy.exe has no
such switch!
- If you get a "path too long" error message then you must
reduce the total length of path+file name to less than 250
characters. Place your information into your files, not into
the file names! You may have to apply this trick to access
folders that are located too deep inside your directory structure:

subst x: "d:\Data\Some Folder\Some SubFolder\Some SubSubFolder"

You can now manipulate your excessively long file/folder names
on drive X:.

Thanks for replying to my post.

In order to do this, this is what I did. I want to copy the 250 GB to a USB
hard drive attached to my computer. I created a shared folder on it and
gave my account full permissions to the folder. This was my syntax:

xcopy d:\data \\COMPUTER_NAME\data /E /C /G /H /Y

Any help would be great.

Hello:

I need to copy 250 GB of date from a network drive to a USB hard
drive.
I
am using the normal copy/paste technique, but I am hitting a problem.
The
copy goes fine until it gets to a problem file then I get an error
message
"Cannot remove folder [NAME_OF_FILE]: The filename or extension is too
long". I tried doing a xcopy and ran into even more problems with the
syntax. The network share is on a Windows 2003 server.

Does anyone know of an technique to force this? Any help or advice would
be
greatly appreciated.

Harrison Midkiff



Let's have a look at your xcopy syntax!

 

[Vincent Xu [MSFT]]

Hi,

I suggest you use "subst <drive letter> <path> to create a virtual disk.

e.g.: to share a folder c:\test as V drive use
subst v: c:\test
this will share it as a virtual V drive
Also to delete the mapping use subst v: /d


Hope this helps.


Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Thanks for replying to my post again.

The /G is Allows the copying of encrypted files to destination that does not
support encryption. I added it as a fail safe so to speak. I really want
to avoid reducing the path because the data is an archive. Any other
suggestions. I am going to check the script center next to see if there is
anything there.

Some comments:
- What is the /G switch for? My version of xcopy.exe has no
such switch!
- If you get a "path too long" error message then you must
reduce the total length of path+file name to less than 250
characters. Place your information into your files, not into
the file names! You may have to apply this trick to access
folders that are located too deep inside your directory structure:

subst x: "d:\Data\Some Folder\Some SubFolder\Some SubSubFolder"

You can now manipulate your excessively long file/folder names
on drive X:.


Thanks for replying to my post.

In order to do this, this is what I did. I want to copy the 250 GB to a
USB
hard drive attached to my computer. I created a shared folder on it and
gave my account full permissions to the folder. This was my syntax:

xcopy d:\data \\COMPUTER_NAME\data /E /C /G /H /Y

Any help would be great.




Hello:

I need to copy 250 GB of date from a network drive to a USB hard
drive.
I
am using the normal copy/paste technique, but I am hitting a problem.
The
copy goes fine until it gets to a problem file then I get an error
message
"Cannot remove folder [NAME_OF_FILE]: The filename or extension is too
long". I tried doing a xcopy and ran into even more problems with the
syntax. The network share is on a Windows 2003 server.

Does anyone know of an technique to force this? Any help or advice
would
be
greatly appreciated.

Harrison Midkiff



Let's have a look at your xcopy syntax!