I have to copy my music file. It contains some file names that exceed the maximum size that Windows will copy. I just lost a 20 hour copy operation due to this problem.
How can I force Windows to bypass these records and continue the copy operation?
Or, how can I identify these records and shorten the file names in advance?
Also to find path names longer than a certain amount of characters:
How do I find files with a path length greater than 260 characters in Windows? - Stack Overflow
This might be handy if you are still getting into trouble. A lot of older Windows programs might not handle longer path/file names very well, because the max_path length in those programs often is hard coded to 256 or 260 characters.
Edit: you can download a (free open source) path length checker from github:
Releases · deadlydog/PathLengthChecker (github.com)
Unzip the zip file and start the file ‘PathLengthCheckerGUI.exe’.
I’ll try it. Thanks much!
