Whenever I use Windows Explorer to copy Google Drive subfolders, I frequently get the "Destination Path Too Long" error. Any suggestions how to resolve it?
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I need to make backups of some files on a network share. However, I need to copy those files to my local drive before burning the disks because those files might be in use. Some of the files won't copy because the file path is too long. Is there any workaround other than changing the file structure?
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I need to move my folder with many subfolders to another path.  I'm using putty and this is what I tried: MV -r fromflderpath tofolderpath  What am I doing wrong?
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Is there a good tool/program that allows me to clone a system drive to another, smaller hard drive?  I've bought a new 64GB SSD drive and would like to move my current Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installation to that new drive. My current drive is a 200GB SATA drive with one partition only. Of course there's enough free space to shrink my current partition to less than 64GB.
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I dragged a file to the recycle bin a few days ago. I have Windows 7 premium on a 245 GB partition, a 240 GB SSD, and a 250 SSD. And somewhere in the past few days I incidentally installed Delta Search. I know I should remove it right away, but I just switched to Windows on the partition of a 3.5 1 TB drive and would like to restore that file and deal with the malware after Christmas is over.  I'm pretty sure I know what drive that deleted files should be on, but what is the real name of the recycle directory and exactly where is it located? In other words, if I know the name of the drive what would the rest of the path look like so I can just paste it in my Explorer window and change the drive letter.
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I have this problem on two of my new laptops and can't seem to find a decent workable solution elsewhere in forum land. The problem is that on my Windows 7 Professional machines the right mouse button doesn't show the New Folder option and elsewhere as well (via Explorer) I'm unable to create new folders.   I'll be happy to get this tiny problem resolved and declare that Windows 7 is almost perfect! Thanks to all of you in advance for your contribution!  PS: None of the Vista solutions seem to work here!      Tried NewFolderFix.reg, didn't work - "Not all data was succesfully written to the registry. Some keys are open by the system or other processes."  Converted FolderFix.reg to .inf file and that worked.  Don't recall the problem appearing after an update.  MS answer to the explore process hanging (KB 972685) was to install the latest Visual C++ Update (vcredist.exe).  Nope. That didn't help either.  I haven't touched Silverlight since installation when Windows 7 hit the shelves. I tortured the RC installation before that, and never had problems there either.    UPDATE-  Logged back into Administrator account, still missing from there. Spent a bit more time looking instead of just fixing. Just yto make sure, logged back into my user account - still OK there.  Turns out the entries in HKCR\CLSID were the culprit here. Reg file wouldn't take again (as above) but inf file fixed it. This key was unable to be entered from regfile, or altered or deleted in Regedit (Permissions).   Don't quite understand why a common key in HKCR needed to be entered separately for each user.   Here is the file I used to fix it. Just copy into notepad, save as newfolderfix.inf, rt-click and select Install  ================================================================  [Version]  Signature=$Windows NT$  [DefaultInstall]  AddReg     =REGEntries.AddReg  [REGEntries.AddReg]  HKCR,"%String0%",,0x0,"CLSID_ExecuteFolder"  HKCR,"%String0%\InProcServer32",,0x0,"ExplorerFrame.dll"  HKCR,"%String0%\InProcServer32","ThreadingModel",0x0,"Apartment"   [Strings]  String0 = "CLSID\{11dbb47c-a525-400b-9e80-a54615a090c0}"  =============================================================   Thanks to others who helped point me in the right direction.
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I'm absolutely blown away by how impossible this task appearing to be. I've been through probably a hundred separate Google search results, every single one explaining how to "right click the volume and click extend". Well guess what, the extend button is greyed out. Here's a screenshot of Disk Management:    I can't use the Windows snipping tool with a context menu open (and my keyboard lacks a print screen button), but believe me when I say that the extend button is greyed out when right clicking the Windows 8 partition. I've tried using DISKPART.exe too:    Would anybody care to fill me in on why Windows is refusing to extend the partition? What will I have to do in order to extend the partition with the remaining 140GB on the drive?
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When I create a folder or copy files, after the operation finishes I have to manually refresh the Explorer window (F5). For example, when I create a folder, I don't see the "New Folder" until I hit F5.  Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
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I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed. But when selecting Windows 8 to boot I get following error: error: unknown command 'drivemap' error: invalid EFI filepath  I ran boot-repair more than once.  The output can be found here:   Hope you can help me.
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I have a folder scheme like (highly simplified version):  New Files  &gt;Tools  &gt;Scripts Tested Files  &gt;Tools  &gt;Scripts   ... and I'd like to have a shortcut in each folder from the "New Files" child folders, to the "Tested Files" child folder. But this folder may be moved around from time to time, which would break said shortcuts.  Is there a way to make a relative shortcut to each folder? I remember doing this in HTML where you could set a path, something along the lines of .../Files to go back to a parent and then into a new folder, but I'm unsure if this is something support under Windows shortcuts?  PS: The case of similarly relative shortcuts, when the target is a file, is dealt with in . In the present case the target is a Folder.
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I have two drives with the same files, but the directory structure is totally different.  Is there any way to 'move' all the files on the destination side so that they match the structure of the source side? With a script perhaps?    For example, drive A has:    /foo/bar/123.txt /foo/bar/234.txt /foo/bar/dir/567.txt   Whereas drive B has:  /some/other/path/123.txt /bar/doo2/wow/234.txt /bar/doo/567.txt   The files in question are huge (800GB), so I don't want to re-copy them; I just want to sync the structure by creating the necessary directories and moving the files.  I was thinking of a recursive script that would find each source file on the destination, then move it to a matching directory, creating it if necessary. But -- that's beyond my abilities!  Another elegant solution was given here:
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Windows seems to have a length limit on file names when trying to delete, though it won't prevent those files from being created.  Our build process creates a number of temporary files (many build off of a WSDL) that run afoul of this limit.  Our ant script is somehow able to delete them when doing a clean, but sometimes I need to delete the workarea directory (where all the temp files go) without actually doing a full clean from ant.  This is the same errors , but the answers there don't really work for me as I'm dealing with a directory, not a file, and I don't always know what specific files or subdirectories are causing the problem.  And I'm trying to avoid any manual process (other than triggering a single command) to actually delete them.  If I try deleting the directory from Explorer I get the error   Cannot delete [file name]: The file name you specified is not valid or too long.   Specify a different file name   Trying Remove-Item in powershell gives the following error:  Remove-Item : The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. At line:1 char:12 + Remove-Item  &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; -force -Recurse &lt;directory&gt;   Does anyone know of any tools or easy ways to get around this delete error without having to manually find the problem files and move/rename them?
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I noticed that copying 24Mb worth of data from one folder to another took about 30 seconds because (I'm assuming this is the reason) it was over 1,000 separate files. Copying 24Mb shouldn't take so long. Why does the number of files make a different?  I'm running Windows 7 on a MacBook (4GB ram, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7450 @ 2.13GHz, 32-bit Operating System)  EDIT: NTFS is the file system used on the drive
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I can copy, move, create, and delete them. I can rename them using the REN command from a command prompt. I cannot rename folders through Windows Explorer anywhere on my machine, including on other drives.   When I try to do so, I receive an error titled "Rename Folder" that says "Can't find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." Then when I click Try Again or Cancel, I get another error titled "Rename" that says "The file or folder does not exist."  As far as I can tell, nothing else is wrong with my computer, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix this problem. I don't know for sure if superuser is the right place to ask this question, but feel free to redirect me.  Summary of Failed Attempts:   Booted into Safe Mode  Made a New User Account System Restore Point (two days ago, 9 days ago)  Deleting / Restoring / Modifying FolderDescriptions registry entries SFC /scannow  Removing windows update KB2984006  Scanned for viruses using Nod32  Scanned for malware using MalwareBytes   Details:  Tried rolling back to two different system restore points, both immediately before I observed the problem and one release prior to that.  Tried restoring FolderDescriptions registry entries as found here:   Booting in safe mode as suggested here:   SFC /scannow as suggested here:   Tried removing registry keys and windows update KB2984006 as suggested here:   Tried exporting folderdescriptions from other machine and importing as suggested here:   Compared my exported registry with other machine's exported registry for both:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions   My FolderDescriptions branch of the registry in both cases are binary equal to those exported from my wife's Windows 8.1 laptop which works fine.
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As a developer I work with a lot of source code files etc. and I need to copy these around, rename, etc. I'm sure any developer knows the drill.  Windows Explorer is really "helpful" in suggesting different Views for different folders. Apparently one source code folder is an image folder, another apparently needs large icons etc. This appears to be getting worse with every new Windows release. It used to be possible to set a View on a root folder and Windows would pretty much respect that, but Vista keeps guessing (wrong) no matter what I do.  I like many of the other improvements that MS made to Windows Explorer over the years, but this persistent attempt and failure to guess how I want my files listed make it counterproductive and really spoils it all.  So I gave up on Windows Explorer and now use Salamander instead. But the problem comes up again every time I use someone else's computer, and whenever a program uses the standard file open/save dialogs.  Please - does anyone know of a way to tell Windows Explorer to always use Detail View - and keep doing it?  Thanks in advance
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Let me give you an example of the rather odd functionality I'm after. Imagine you have your local HDD, an external HDD, and a usb stick, all containing a folder called "MediumMedley". When all these storage mediums are connected, you want to query all these locations and display a merger of the results within one location, to have a proper overview.  Can anyone think of any ways to achieve something akin to this? Bonus points if the end result is a windows explorer window (I want full explorer functionality, ie thumbnails, context menus etc).  One approach I tried was to do a custom search (looking at this SU question:  ), which works, but as far as I can tell (doing an empty * search) you can only get windows search to show a flattened hierarchy of the queried folders - not very helpful.  I could easily write a .net app myself to do exactly this, but I won't be able to easily build a pretty client with context menus, thumbnails etc...  --  PS: I need these folders each in their own storage medium, as exemplified, for reasons. Don't tell me that I should just use dropbox. Unless you know a trick that solves what I ask.
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I am trying to copy a 6GB file to a USB flash drive but it won't copy.
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For some time, Microsoft has supported an option to remove the limit of 260 symbols for NTFS file name length.  The web is full of articles, describing what should be done.   Hit the Windows key, type gpedit.msc and press Enter. Navigate to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Filesystem > NTFS. Double click the Enable NTFS long paths option and enable it.   However, I don't have such option. Please see the screenshot below:    Am I missing some Windows update, or is it something else?