Destination Filename too long (Folder I don't recognize named Proxies?)

piropeople13 · Jul 20, 2013

I am copying all my family pictures off an external NTFS hard drive to the root C: drive (also NTFS). When I do it copies most of the stuff but then shows up with this error message:

Notice how there are many of them and each one when I click skip is called Proxies and has the same creation date which by my calculations was created sometime in the middle of the file transfer. When I skip all of them I searched the source folder for "Proxies" but there is nothing there!

I thought this would be safe to ignore but then I checked the properties of the newly copied folder and compared it to the properties of the source and they are over 200mb different.

Does anyone know what is going on here?

USAFRet · Jul 20, 2013

How deep is the folder tree? How many levels?

For instance:
/Vacation pictures/2013/November/Geraldine/GeraldineAtTheBeach/InABikini/InTheSand/blahblahblah/DSCF4000.jpg may exceed the MAX_PATH of 260 characters (Windows 7)

noidea_77 · Jul 20, 2013

It might be a problem with the source file system. Try to run a filesystem check on the disk: right click on the drive in explorer / properties / tools.

piropeople13 · Jul 20, 2013

USAFRet :

N:\Backups\Pratt Family Pictures\(a whole bunch of folders)

Destination filepath is C:\PrattFamilyPictures so it is even shorter.

I think I found the problem
C:\AAAAA Pratt Family Pictures Merge\N 2tb\Pratt Family Pictures\2011 Nov Macbook Pro Movies\iMovie Projects.localized\first vlog.rcproject\Proxies\~%2FMovies%2FiMovie%20Events%2Elocalized%2FNew%20Event%2FMOV019%2Emp4

And there is a whole bunch more like this. Looks like some iMovie source files have HORRENDOUSLY long names. I still don't understand why I can't copy them if they seem to exist ok on the external drive because.

Im going to double check the file path again.

USAFRet · Jul 20, 2013

piropeople13 :

USAFRet :

N:\Backups\Pratt Family Pictures\(a whole bunch of folders)

Destination filepath is C:\PrattFamilyPictures so it is even shorter.

I think I found the problem
C:\AAAAA Pratt Family Pictures Merge\N 2tb\Pratt Family Pictures\2011 Nov Macbook Pro Movies\iMovie Projects.localized\first vlog.rcproject\Proxies\~%2FMovies%2FiMovie%20Events%2Elocalized%2FNew%20Event%2FMOV019%2Emp4

And there is a whole bunch more like this. Looks like some iMovie source files have HORRENDOUSLY long names. I still don't understand why I can't copy them if they seem to exist ok on the external drive because.

Im going to double check the file path again.

Because it can't create that full path all at once.

piropeople13 · Jul 20, 2013

USAFRet :

piropeople13 :

Because it can't create that full path all at once.

Ahh I didn't know that. Thanks!

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