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Title: Wav File Names Too Long - Windows 7
Post by: Christian_Rork on September 12, 2012, 09:34:33 am

Build: 17.0.182

I just recently had to re-import some parts of my library & before the auto-import function imported all files with no problems......now it skips some indicating file names too long.  Is there a workaround for this other than having to re-edit those file names?

Title: Re: Wav File Names Too Long - Windows 7
Post by: Matt on September 12, 2012, 09:51:51 am

You shouldn't use filenames longer than 260 characters, or you're going to have troubles.  Even Windows Explorer itself will start to have problems with the files if you break this rule.

So I'd recommend shortening the path or name.

Title: Re: Wav File Names Too Long - Windows 7
Post by: Vincent Kars on September 12, 2012, 10:24:11 am

If you have somthing like

C:\My very long user name\ my data \my music\
you might try moving all the audio to e.g. C:\sound

Title: Re: Wav File Names Too Long - Windows 7
Post by: drmimosa on September 12, 2012, 11:33:34 am

I've also had trouble with some audio filenames being too long for Windows 7 to copy. Classical tags via auto naming rules are usually the culprit, and it's about 100 files out of 25k total in these.

Linux handles them no problem, so the length might right between the limits for the OS's.

I'd like to root these out of my collection, can I build a Smartlist that finds all filenames based on character length above a certain point?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Wav File Names Too Long - Windows 7
Post by: Vincent Kars on September 12, 2012, 02:50:40 pm

Add an expression column like
Length([Filename (path)])
and sort

I wonder if this is a length issue. IMHO both have 256 as the upper limit.
Some "strange" characters in the file name?

Title: Re: Wav File Names Too Long - Windows 7
Post by: drmimosa on September 12, 2012, 03:04:35 pm

Thank you, Vincent. I'll try the expression column.

It might be strange characters, I'll check that.

I've grown to like using Linux for backup, however. I run Ubuntu off a usb stick, and I've never had a random hang or missing file. I've had hangs and missing files using Windows Copy functions when copying 25k files at a time, and I'm not sure it's worth the time to trouble shoot. Could be hardware, could be software, etc.