Windows 7 "Filename too long for destination folder"??? How to allow long filenames?

[pstein]

Much to my surprise Win7 told me ina popup that a filename with approx. 30 chars is too long for the destination folder when I try to move the file to another directory.

From my point of view the concatenated path+filename is long but not too long.
At least there would be no error under good old WinXP.

So Win7 have probably introduced a new filename length rule.

Is there a way to disable this rule resp. allow longer path+filenames?

Peter

 

[TorrentG]

Hey there.

Windows 7 using NTFS has a maximum file name length of 255 characters. This is known as "long filename system".

Are you perhaps trying to move the files to an FAT partition?

 

[kemical]

This web page 'may' help if only to give you the parameters allowed..


Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces (Windows)

 

[polygonuk]

I just had the same problem trying to copy a folder in Win7 to a new hard drive. I got around it by first copying the folder to the root of the new drive (hence much shorter path length) which worked. I then moved the copied folder from the root to the folder on the new drive I had originally intended to copy it to.

Paul

 

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My issue is that the File name is NOT too long and the files in question are all 25-30 characters long including the extension.

(UPDATE June 27, 2013)
Fixed if by copying the destination folder to the root of the drive and then copying the remaining files (that did not get copied originally) to the folder and then moving the folder farther down the tree, but about 2-3 levels up from where it was originally. I have not tried moving it back as I don't need it at that level and would bet on the same results as before.

Maybe not pertinent is that this was just a copy (full copy) and not single html file of a web page (ebay page) that I moved from the root of one drive to the root of another. Same number of levels in the dir tree.

Questions:
1. Why did some files copy to the last folder in the dir tree and not others? As said before it was not the individual file name length (at least I don't see why) as the number of the characters in the files that did not copy to the last folders were between 18-29 characters in length and the files that did copy were all jpg images with 12 characters (all numbers) in length.
2. In one folder that had 5 files that would not copy, after moving the folder up one level in the dir tree I was able to copy one more file to the folder but not a second one. Then when I moved the folder up one more level I was able to copy the second file but not the third. As you can surmise,when I moved it up one more level I was able to copy another file (the third file). This all seams strange and peculiar and appears to me to be a flaw in Windows 7 file management.

 

[Yuki Kun]

Im figured when ya'll said NTFS has a maximum file name length of 255 characters,
im solved already by shorting filename before im going to rename or delete the items.
example C:/ABCDEFGHIJK/ABCDEFGHIJKLM/ACBDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR/Movie2002ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.MP4 (originally)
rename from the beginning C:/ABC/ABCDE/ABCDEF/Movie.MP4



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[jcgriff2]

My issue is that the File name is NOT too long and the files in question are all 25-30 characters long including the extension.

Does the 25-30 characters include all of the folder names?

It should.

The 255 max includes folder, sub-folder + filename.

 

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