Finding files with long path lengths

01-15-2008

Recently, I installed FS on my Wife's computers. However, when the first
synch started, it gave the error of a certain file having a long path length.
I was initally disheartened at the prospect of having to sift through her
directories to find files with long path lengths. A quick Google search
turned up FileBoss, a handy utility that can actually find all folders within
a specified path that have long path lengths. Using this, I quickly found
the 10 files out of 2000 that were causing problems and renamed them to
shorter names. Now FS works perfectly. Just thought I would post this so
that others who have the same problem could benefit.

01-22-2008

Very helpful. Thank you.

"vts" wrote:

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	> Recently, I installed FS on my Wife's computers. However, when the first > synch started, it gave the error of a certain file having a long path length. > I was initally disheartened at the prospect of having to sift through her > directories to find files with long path lengths. A quick Google search > turned up FileBoss, a handy utility that can actually find all folders within > a specified path that have long path lengths. Using this, I quickly found > the 10 files out of 2000 that were causing problems and renamed them to > shorter names. Now FS works perfectly. Just thought I would post this so > that others who have the same problem could benefit.

05-02-2008

Anyone know of a Mac OS X app that does the same thing as FileBoss? TIA.

On 2008-01-22 20:59:14 -0500, ziipppp <ziipppp@xxxxxx> said:

Quote:

> Very helpful. Thank you.
>
> "vts" wrote:
>

	Quote:
	>> Recently, I installed FS on my Wife's computers. However, when the first >> synch started, it gave the error of a certain file having a long path length. >> I was initally disheartened at the prospect of having to sift through her >> directories to find files with long path lengths. A quick Google search >> turned up FileBoss, a handy utility that can actually find all folders within >> a specified path that have long path lengths. Using this, I quickly found >> the 10 files out of 2000 that were causing problems and renamed them to >> shorter names. Now FS works perfectly. Just thought I would post this so >> that others who have the same problem could benefit.

01-15-2008	#1 (permalink)
vts Guest n/a posts	Finding files with long path lengths Recently, I installed FS on my Wife's computers. However, when the first synch started, it gave the error of a certain file having a long path length. I was initally disheartened at the prospect of having to sift through her directories to find files with long path lengths. A quick Google search turned up FileBoss, a handy utility that can actually find all folders within a specified path that have long path lengths. Using this, I quickly found the 10 files out of 2000 that were causing problems and renamed them to shorter names. Now FS works perfectly. Just thought I would post this so that others who have the same problem could benefit.
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