Can't copy because filename is too long

[thewolfe]

Friend is trying to copy files from his hard drive to an external drive but every time he gets started there is an error message which says something about filename being too long. (I'll get the error message if needed)

So every time he starts to copy a folder with a lot of files in it, the error message pops up and he doesn't know how many files if any were copied. Plus he has to change the filename on the one that popped up. And that just keeps happening over and over.

He's using an older laptop with windows 98.

Any solutions?

[TechPro]

Download \"Servant Salamander\" (scroll down the page and get the 1.52 version, it's free)

Use Servant Salamander to help you copy files from one drive to another. Servant Salamander is a two paned file manager that provides excellent progress bars (one for the entire job, a second for the current file) while showing the file name and path that it's currently working on. When encounting a problem like what you described, instead of stopping completely, it gives you options.

Servant Salamander is also excellent when you need to compare the contents of folders.

P.S. You don't have to install it either. Just run it.

[thewolfe]

That sounds great. Does it give you an option to change the name of the file?

[AlphaDoG]

Make sure both are formatted in the same way. IE. FAT32 or NTFS and that problem disappears.

[Krom]

Make sure both are formatted in the same way. IE. FAT32 or NTFS and that problem disappears.

Windows 98 computers can't access NTFS drives so that is impossible.

[TechPro]

True.