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I cannot convert my NTFS drive back to FAT 32 because somewhere on the
hard drive there is a file with a name that is too long. With 50
gigs. of used space, finding this one (or more) offending file could
take forever. Is there a program which I can use which will look for
long file names and identify them? Thanks.

Scribner <> wrote in
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> I cannot convert my NTFS drive back to FAT 32 because somewhere on the
> hard drive there is a file with a name that is too long. With 50
> gigs. of used space, finding this one (or more) offending file could
> take forever. Is there a program which I can use which will look for
> long file names and identify them? Thanks.
>

Not directly, but...

open command prompt, type
D: (where D is the drive to be converted)
cd \
dir /S /B >listing.txt

This will dump all files paths in the file D:\listing.txt

Open this file with some textprocessor (Word). Replace all \ bij a newline.
Change the page width so that the filename which is too long doesn't fit
anymore. Search for a temporary - (word wrap sign)

"Scribner" <> wrote in message
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> I cannot convert my NTFS drive back to FAT 32 because somewhere on the
> hard drive there is a file with a name that is too long. With 50
> gigs. of used space, finding this one (or more) offending file could
> take forever. Is there a program which I can use which will look for
> long file names and identify them? Thanks.


This should do the trick:

Program Name: Long Filenames Finder

www.dcsoft.com

HTH,

Loren

On 7 Nov 2004 13:22:28 GMT, Ingeborg <> wrote:

>Scribner <> wrote in
>news: :
>
>> I cannot convert my NTFS drive back to FAT 32 because somewhere on the
>> hard drive there is a file with a name that is too long. With 50
>> gigs. of used space, finding this one (or more) offending file could
>> take forever. Is there a program which I can use which will look for
>> long file names and identify them? Thanks.
>>
>
>Not directly, but...
>
>open command prompt, type
>D: (where D is the drive to be converted)
>cd \
>dir /S /B >listing.txt
>
>This will dump all files paths in the file D:\listing.txt
>
>Open this file with some textprocessor (Word). Replace all \ bij a newline.
>Change the page width so that the filename which is too long doesn't fit
>anymore. Search for a temporary - (word wrap sign)
Thanks. This works - sort of. But no word wrap. A glitch somewhere,
I suppose.

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:29:16 -0600, "LPV"
<> wrote:

>
>"Scribner" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>
>> I cannot convert my NTFS drive back to FAT 32 because somewhere on the
>> hard drive there is a file with a name that is too long. With 50
>> gigs. of used space, finding this one (or more) offending file could
>> take forever. Is there a program which I can use which will look for
>> long file names and identify them? Thanks.
>
>
>This should do the trick:
>
>Program Name: Long Filenames Finder
>
>www.dcsoft.com
>
>HTH,
>
>Loren
>
>
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

Scribner wrote:

> >> Is there a program which I can use which will look for
> >> long file names and identify them? Thanks.


I wrote:

> >This should do the trick:
> >
> >Program Name: Long Filenames Finder
> >
> >www.dcsoft.com


Scribner wrote:

> This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.


You're very welcome...glad to hear it fit the bill for you.

Loren

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:42:37 -0600, "LPV"
<> wrote:

>Scribner wrote:
>
>> >> Is there a program which I can use which will look for
>> >> long file names and identify them? Thanks.
>
>
>I wrote:
>
>> >This should do the trick:
>> >
>> >Program Name: Long Filenames Finder
>> >
>> >www.dcsoft.com
>
>
>Scribner wrote:
>
>> This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
>
>
>You're very welcome...glad to hear it fit the bill for you.
>
>Loren
>
Yeah. I've cleaned up the long file names on the drives, yet I'm
still getting the long name error. 8-(. Oh, well.

Scribner <> wrote in
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> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:42:37 -0600, "LPV"
> <> wrote:
>
>>Scribner wrote:
>>
>>> >> Is there a program which I can use which will look for
>>> >> long file names and identify them? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>I wrote:
>>
>>> >This should do the trick:
>>> >
>>> >Program Name: Long Filenames Finder
>>> >
>>> >www.dcsoft.com
>>
>>
>>Scribner wrote:
>>
>>> This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>You're very welcome...glad to hear it fit the bill for you.
>>
>>Loren
>>
> Yeah. I've cleaned up the long file names on the drives, yet I'm
> still getting the long name error. 8-(. Oh, well.
>

Maybe the total path is to deep? In win95 VFAT the maximum path length is
259, and maybe this is a VFAT limitation, and as far as I know in NTFS
it's virtually unlimited.

You could repeat my trick without replacing \ by newline, and with some
other filter to find lines longer than 259 bytes. (Eyes?)