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Geek Culture / Long file names.

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Surreal Killa
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 15:11
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I moved all my files (a couple hundred gigs worth) from one HDD to another, and now all the files and folders that had long file names no longer work. It says they are 0 bytes and just nothing happens, can't access them in any way, can't delete them. This has happened to me in the past also. My question is why does Windows do this? And what is the safe character limit for a file name?

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Deathead
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@Surreal Killa: Sometimes its because one may not be able to hold as much memory. So it deletes files.

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Surreal Killa
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That makes sense. I think I have memory disabled on the HDD I moved all my files to, haha. Maybe I should turn it on.

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Deathead
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Posted: 4th Sep 2007 15:42
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Hehe you should

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bitJericho
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Quote: "That makes sense. I think I have memory disabled on the HDD I moved all my files to, haha. Maybe I should turn it on."


WTF? What are you guys talking about >.<


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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 5th Sep 2007 08:13
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8 characters. One dot. 3 further characters. AKA: 8.3 Or, in other words:

FILENAME.EXT is the longest. FILENAME2.EXT doesn't work. FILENAM.EEXT doesn't work either. From what I understand anyways.


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Osiris
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Comparison of file name limitations-go to that.

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Surreal Killa
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Posted: 5th Sep 2007 15:45
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It says WinXP 255 characters.

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Benjamin
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Quote: "8 characters. One dot. 3 further characters. AKA: 8.3 Or, in other words:"

I doubt he's using MS-DOS.

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What file system were the harddrives formatted with?

I think Ben is the only one who's post made any sense at all.


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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 6th Sep 2007 05:39 Edited at: 6th Sep 2007 05:39
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My point is if he puts it on a FAT formated hard drive, the file names would have to be 8.3. He doesn't have to be using MS-DOS for that to be true.

I could be wrong though.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 6th Sep 2007 06:09 Edited at: 6th Sep 2007 06:19
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That would be FAT16? I think FAT32 is long file names also.

Anyway your filename would just be truncated, you wouldn't get a zero sized file. Something else cruddy has happened.

Does it have SATA hard drives? They well know for being cruddy at caching files unlike the old PATA.

I remember reading how if Word crashed while saving on a PATA the old file would not be overwritten, where if it crashed on SATA you would end up with half a corrupt file on the hard drive!

It's beyond me why manufactures are push SATA. Give me SCSI any day

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Surreal Killa
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Yeah, it's a SATA drive. NTFS file system though.

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bitJericho
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Quote: "Does it have SATA hard drives? They well know for being cruddy at caching files unlike the old PATA.

I remember reading how if Word crashed while saving on a PATA the old file would not be overwritten, where if it crashed on SATA you would end up with half a corrupt file on the hard drive!"


I've never had such a problem, and I have crashed many programs ^.^ All I use is sata (even for cd drives), won't be looking back.


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