Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze
I had this happen a few times, once in a VERY long dir (like
"C:\qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm\qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm\qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm")
and once in a rather short dir that had some currupt file names
(no name, symbols, ...) try a disk repair utility (not scandisk,
I've never had any luck with it).
Kat wrote:
>
> On 3 Jul 2004, at 19:20, Juergen Luethje wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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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