Destination Path Too Long
I do not understand this issue. I have a drive (D:) with which I want to copy the entire contents to another drive (R:) for backup purposes. However, it will not copy because "Destination Path Too Long". Both drives are formatted NTFS and the files already exist as part of D: so I am not sure why it can't copy to the destination when it will be identicle to the source. How can I get around this?
June 22nd, 2011 11:23am

Hello?
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June 23rd, 2011 11:21am

Hi Danzence, What's the size of the files you want to copy? What's the detailed error message? Also check your Event Viewer to find the related logs. Where's this R drive? an external hard drive or a network one? Seperately copy the folder from D drive to check if it works, shorten the file name if they have long name. Refer to this as well: http://forums.techguy.org/windows-7/911476-solved-destination-path-too-long.html Regards, Miya Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. | Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
June 24th, 2011 3:02am

Weird, I never got alerted to this. The thing I wanted to know was: how could the path have been too long when it already existed in the source. Why does windows refused to copy it? I don't want to rename hundreds of files, I just want it to duplicate the drive.
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July 5th, 2011 10:33pm

find the file giving you problems and compress to rar ,7z ,zip worked for me
February 18th, 2012 5:31pm

Hi Guys, just to update you, finally I found a way to solve it Do you have error messages?, like : * Path too long * Error cannot delete file: cannot read from source file or disk * Cannot delete file: Access is denied * There has been a sharing violation. * Cannot delete file or folder The file name you specified is not valid or too long. Specify a different file name. For that I tried it with: http://longpathtool.com/
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February 24th, 2012 2:39pm

If the path is too long you can still use robocopy/robocopy gui to copy the data from one drive to the other: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.10).aspx In your case you can copy your files in the following way: robocopy D:\ R:\ /copyall /r:3 /w:1 /zb /e Which would copy all your files on your D-drive to your R-drive.
February 24th, 2012 4:20pm

A better solution is to clone the drive if you are looking to replicate a state.
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February 24th, 2012 10:37pm

Long Path Tool helped me in this situation. http://PathTooDeep.com
September 16th, 2012 11:09pm

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