
Originally Posted by
bob24leman
Andy, Hope you are still out there as this post I'm answering was 2014.
I have win10 running on an old dual core machine with 3 SATA hard drives installed. That's C, E, F. I have just built / got this PC running. I keep my important data on F and backed up on E.
This arrangement worked fine when running a previous desktop with XP until the motherboard packed up thus the move to this "new" machine. However I have been getting the same problem you talk about with win7. When I move a reasonable sized lump of data say 300 meg from drive F to E it complains that the path is too long. If I move the same data to drive C all goes well? I have a habit of using long file names say about 35 chars and it does not seem to like these. I gather there is a total path length of 260 chars well mine are more like 90 chars total so I can't see why there is a problem. As this threatens the integrity of my backups it is pretty worrying. I sometimes don't get error messages and have found these files with long file name copied across but with the names truncated. Any ideas?