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

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June 23rd, 2011 11:21am

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.
July 5th, 2011 10:33pm

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

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

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September 21st, 2012 3:30pm

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October 14th, 2012 12:06pm

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