After using my external (USB-2) hard drive many times in recent weeks to back up files on my two internal hard drives, all of a sudden I can't back up directories with large numbers of files without it stopping with a "The Path Is Too Deep" error. Anyone ever heard of this and how to solve it?
I tried looking it up on the Microsoft site and the explanation I get there is that there are too many characters in the directory name string, but both source and target are top-level directories with only like 20 character names (I can see perhaps if I was sourcing or targeting a very deep directory with lengthy names along the way, but I haven't had this kind of trouble in the past).
Of course, I could call Microsoft, but I'll be charged by the minute even if I'm discussing something THEY fucked up in their software, so I thought I'd try looking for someone who's run into this and fixed it before.
What do you have to say?
I tried looking it up on the Microsoft site and the explanation I get there is that there are too many characters in the directory name string, but both source and target are top-level directories with only like 20 character names (I can see perhaps if I was sourcing or targeting a very deep directory with lengthy names along the way, but I haven't had this kind of trouble in the past).
Of course, I could call Microsoft, but I'll be charged by the minute even if I'm discussing something THEY fucked up in their software, so I thought I'd try looking for someone who's run into this and fixed it before.
What do you have to say?
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