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RE: File problem - loosing my freaking mind over this one

This has happened to me in the past. The problem was that the music folder had a short file name relative to its volume, but the name on the backup volume was longer.

File names are limited in length. File names are not intended to be used to compose sonnets, although sometimes this seems to happen. File names are a sequences of simple names composed to produce a path. There can be limits on individual name lengths and limits on the complete path length. These can be enforced by the operating system or by applications. It is a huge PITA whenever one runs into these limitations, but this can happen.

In the past I have found it necessary to shorten the file name of the root of my music library, because a few sub directories down the path name got too long for one or more files. If one is close to a path length limit this can be a quick fix for a test to see if this is, indeed, the problem. You can try this temporarily, and then do a search to be able to read the files that were creating problems. At this point you can either change your file names (or the root or of the various high level directories or of the excessively verbose file names).

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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  • RE: File problem - loosing my freaking mind over this one - Tony Lauck 01/17/1518:32:28 01/17/15 (0)

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