Windows 10 Cant rename files or copy from external hard drive.

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I am trying to copy music files from my external hard drive to my music folder and I get a message about file names too long or invalid. I have tried to shorten the names by renaming them, but it won't allow me. I would rather not shorten the songs names anyway. How can I get around this?
 
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Also make sure the external drive is formatted in NTFS not FAT32.
 
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The instruction provided actually made things worse. I followed them to the letter and now I get an error code 0x80004005 now i cant transfer files at all the value is set to 1. By the way many of these files were converted from m4a and wma to mp3 and ripped using a program on Ubuntu. Does this matter?
 
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