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In Windows Explorer under Windows 7 Pro SP1, I copied a large directory from my internal HD to a USB flash drive. Nine files did not copy and gave messages like the following two sequential ones during the copy, indicating (I think) that the combination of path and file names is too long to copy:
I took screen shots as above in each case and then clicked OK -- not much choice during the copy. Now I'm trying to track down these files so that I can save them in some other folder on the flash drive. There are several problems:
1) What's the difference between the reports in the two pop-up windows? The the file(?) names don't usually correspond between the two. The upper one seems to say the named object is a folder, but there are no such folders on the HD, although there are files beginning with those strings. In the first example above the lower window is clearly naming a file, but one with a very short name that's wildly different from the upper window.
2) The names are always truncated (except in the lower window in the first example), which makes the dates in the upper windows important for tracking down these files. But in no case is there a file on the HD (as found in a Windows Explorer name search) that starts with the indicated name and has the indicated modification date.
What am I missing here? How should one interpret these messages, and what is the best way to track down the files they are complaining about? -- JCW2
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I took screen shots as above in each case and then clicked OK -- not much choice during the copy. Now I'm trying to track down these files so that I can save them in some other folder on the flash drive. There are several problems:
1) What's the difference between the reports in the two pop-up windows? The the file(?) names don't usually correspond between the two. The upper one seems to say the named object is a folder, but there are no such folders on the HD, although there are files beginning with those strings. In the first example above the lower window is clearly naming a file, but one with a very short name that's wildly different from the upper window.
2) The names are always truncated (except in the lower window in the first example), which makes the dates in the upper windows important for tracking down these files. But in no case is there a file on the HD (as found in a Windows Explorer name search) that starts with the indicated name and has the indicated modification date.
What am I missing here? How should one interpret these messages, and what is the best way to track down the files they are complaining about? -- JCW2
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