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. 
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> 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.
It's happened again, this time with a count of 14,172 files in another
directory. Is there a magic number i missed somewhere?
Kat
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