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cpliu
With HD formatted in NTFS running under Windows XP and 2000:
What is the limit of total characters allowed for a folder?
What is the limit of total characters allowed for a path with multiple
folders?
I have a path of many folders (folders inside folders) and I found I
cannot copy the files to another drive. I got:
"Cannot copy <folder name here>: The filename you specified is invalid
or too long. Specify a different filename."
I played around with different options.
1) I decreased the lengths of different folder names in the same path.
It appears I could add more char to a folder. I couldn't add any more
char after the path reaches 246 characters. Strangely, I could rename
the folder from the root directory and put it back in. Is this a bug of
the system?
2) After I did that, I found I couldn't delete any files with illegal
length of the total characters in the path. I'm stuck with files and
folders that I cannot delete. I cannot move and I cannot open the files
either.
How can delete a folder/files that is too deep in path? I think the
system should not allow you to move folders into a folder that would
make the path length illegal.
Any suggestions to save my files?
Thanks,
cpliu
What is the limit of total characters allowed for a folder?
What is the limit of total characters allowed for a path with multiple
folders?
I have a path of many folders (folders inside folders) and I found I
cannot copy the files to another drive. I got:
"Cannot copy <folder name here>: The filename you specified is invalid
or too long. Specify a different filename."
I played around with different options.
1) I decreased the lengths of different folder names in the same path.
It appears I could add more char to a folder. I couldn't add any more
char after the path reaches 246 characters. Strangely, I could rename
the folder from the root directory and put it back in. Is this a bug of
the system?
2) After I did that, I found I couldn't delete any files with illegal
length of the total characters in the path. I'm stuck with files and
folders that I cannot delete. I cannot move and I cannot open the files
either.
How can delete a folder/files that is too deep in path? I think the
system should not allow you to move folders into a folder that would
make the path length illegal.
Any suggestions to save my files?
Thanks,
cpliu