Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm copying 600GB of data from
external hard drive A to external hard drive B.  Windows Server
2008 R2 has notified me that 100 files have filenames that are
too long (i.e. >255 chars).  Is there a utility that can allow
me to search for these filenames, and manually shorten them?
share|improve this question +1, as I hate this problem and have
never found a good solution –  ITGuy24 Nov 2 '09 at 14:08 I hate
it as well, this problem has been nagging at me for the last 2
years. –  Contango Nov 2 '09 at 15:07 ... and I just found the
perfect solution. Horray! –  Contango Nov 2 '09 at 15:10 add
comment  2 Answers  I'm guessing that you are placing the files
on drive B in a subfolder with a long name. The total length of
the filename and path cannot exceed 255 characters. It may be
that the DESTINATION file is too long.  share|improve this
answer Exactly. We want to reduce all SOURCE filepath lengths to
less than 200 characters, to avoid problems with the DESTINATION
file path being too