Long Filenames

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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?
 
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...
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Whenever I try to back up my data (I simply do a click
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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?
 
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!


Laura said:
Whenever I try to back up my data (I simply do a click and drag process
Click to expand...
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?
 
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