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Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 03, 2004
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Kat wrote:

> I ran into a problem last night, and can't figure out why this is. In one dir,
> i
> have 14,301 txt files. So i go to create a new one, and Eu reports a bad file.
> I
> try it manually, and Windoze reports:
>
> Unable to create the file "New Text Document.txt'
> The directory of file cannot be created.
>
> Scandisk reported a filename too long in the directory, but it didn't fix
> anything, and i cannot find any error. Does anyone have any experience with
> this?

I had experienced things like that in the past, too. Fortunately,
recently this did not happen to me any more, so I recall this problem
rather vaguely. IIRC Windows allows you to create files that have too
long names, and after creation, it can't handle them any more. 

The first question IMHO is: How long is (or would have been) the *full*
name (including path) of "New Text Document.txt"? Windows only allaws a
maximum of 260 characters or so.

Maybe you should move all "good" files in the regarding directory into a
new directory (with a rather short name), and then (try to) delete that
old corrupted directory.

Regards,
   Juergen