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Filenames too long and Windows can't open the files

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Mar 15, 202629466 views
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Problem

There's a bunch of files on a network drive, on a fairly deep path and the directories on most of of have long names. I think that these were originally created when someone copied & pasted the root directory for this group of files from their local workstation to the shared network drive. I imagin…

Error Output

C:\Documents and Settings\SomeUser\Files\RootOfLongFileNames\LongSubdirectoryName1\...\VeryLongAndDescriptiveAndSpecificFilename.xls
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Fix for: Filenames too long and Windows can't open the files

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Try substituting the path with SUBST.EXE. It comes with Windows: What you want to do is substitute one of the folders down the chain for a drive letter: Now the LongSubdirectoryName1 folder is accessed on the X: drive. When you're done with it you c…

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