Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze
On 3 Jul 2004, at 19:20, Juergen Luethje wrote:
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> Kat wrote:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
There are path+filenames which are longer than "123.txt" in that directory. I
can drag/drop/copy a file to the directory, like "new.txt" , but then cannot
rename it to "123.txt",, but i can rename it to "NEW.txt" !
> 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.
I'll try that in a few days, when the program ends this run. Chances are, it
will
crash when the new dir also has 14,301 files in it? The directory is NOT
flagged as system, archive, hidden, or read-only.
Kat
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