Question very detailed question about huge filenames problems

[beginner-mt]

Hello everyone

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1. The OS is Win10​

1. The file-system (also on the External hard disks) is NTFS.
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2. I NEVER had this problem, even with very long filenames.​

1. Third party apps (even Microsoft's PowerRenamer) don't help with this problem (anyway, now the filenames are short).​

1. I've scanned both the PC and the external HD, repeatedly, with a few apps. All clear.​

1. I used to have the same problem on computers' main drives, but a simple registry tweak (that I found online) had solved the problem on the PC. Regarding External drives, Google finds absolutely NOTHING on the internet.​

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I've got truckloads of items saved onto External hard disks.

After lots of work on my part, their filenames are short.

Even so, very often, I cannot rename them, or easily move them, etc.

Such files are NOT nested inside subfolders etc etc

The problem persists even if/when I move files from the External HD to the PC's C-drive.

I often get this weird Windows message::

"If you change a filename extension, the file might become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?"

The thing is, I'm not touching, at all, the file-extension. I'm only trying to shorten (a little. or a lot) the NAME of such file(s).

What's going on??

In advance, thank you very much for your help

Christian​

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[Trident]

Did you try hiding the extensions? If they are hidden and you are still getting the issue, bring up regedit and navigate to that:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Find this key

ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin

Change the value to

0

 

[Pico]

Below are the NTFS limits:

• Maximum disk size: 256 terabytes
• Maximum file size: 256 terabytes
• Maximum number of files on disk: 4,294,967,295
• Maximum number of files in a single folder: 4,294,967,295

 

[Ink]

very detailed question about huge filenames problems

See if this helps:

How to Make Windows 10 Accept File Paths Over 260 Characters

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Method to move/copy/delete files using PowerShell:

How To Fix ‘Filename Is Too Long’ Issue In Windows

If you’ve ever seen this issue, it was probably a simple fix for you. If you’ve seen this error more than twice, then you also know that it can be a complex issue to fix sometimes. Let’s hope you only run into the easy fix variety, but we’ll prepare you for the less easy, guaranteed

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