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Number   :  5023
Date     :  2003-07-13
Author   :  Any Key
Subject  :  pathnames exceeding 255 characters - any way to deal with them?
Size(KB) :  1


I just did an XXCOPY location with an /RC switch ... and then found that
some files couldn't be deleted, because the pathname exceeded the 255
character limited. The files were in deeply nested folders and also the
filenames themselves had ridiculously long names (e.g. from the very long
title of the saved web page).

Does XXCOPY (or any other utility) provide a way to deal with these files,
other than to give the "skipped" error message? For example, to truncate
the files so that they will be within the 255 character limit?

I've tried deleting and renaming these files from Explorer and the Command
Line - no go. However, I WAS able to delete the file if I used the 8.3
short name. It was quite a pain to do this for each of the excessively long
files!

I searched the archive and found a solution to use SUBST for the very long
path - haven't tried it yet, but it seems like it should work. Still, you'd
have to use SUBST any time you wanted to do anything with the file.

What I can't figure out is how XP allowed the files to be created in the
first place, with the pathname length violation.



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