I have never been able to copy / move "my documents" folder from its
location on C drive to another drive. In the past i used to get "file
name ____ too long" ... at which point I would go into mydocs, find
and delete the long named file ... However, when i would then restart
the move to secondary drive i would get another 'file name ___ too
long" ... this went on for many files until each time i gave up either
out of time or frustrated. (I did note when deleting the files that
they were mostly files associated with saved webpages.) Today, after
months of not backing up all the data in mydocs directory I tried
again to move mydocs folder to secondary drive and I get the simple
message "cannot copy file:" but no file name is provided. It seems
the problem is file name length again. The secondary drive is a 100GB
USB external drive, there is no issue with
performance/compatibility/capacity fo the secondary media. Soooo,
here are my several related questions:
1. is there a utility or a method by which i can automate the
identification and/or removal of files with more than the Windows
allowed length?
2. If just moving the mydocs folder is not the best way to create
backups of the mydocs directory then what is? I want a copy of the
directory structure of the C drive mydocs on a secondary drive. I
would REALLY like a utility that compares files/folders in mydocs on C
drive and secondary drive and finds the files/folders in on C mydocs
that are new/changed then simply moves those to secondary drive. In
the past I used a windows utility that created a single compressed
package/file backup of mydocs ... I ran that utility weekly for some
time and it was supposedly adding just the new/changed files to the
backup package but I didn't trust that i would ever be able to get the
files from it and stopped using it when i got a new computer couple
computers back.
2. What is the windows allowed name length? Seems weird that I could
end up with files on my C drive that have names that are not allowed
by Win - but not asking the question of how that happens ;-)
Not sure this is possible in the Google Answers model but, I would be
happy to pay an extra $5.00 - i.e., $20 total - if you can point me
to a program that will do all that i want in 1) i.e., duplicate the
mydocs directory structure on secondary drive and backup
incrementally.
Thanks a lot
Tony |