File Path Name Length

[srpender]

Hello Experts

I "own" a 110 GB Directory on one of my employers servers that is undergoing
a migration project to a larger, faster, more powerful server. My challenge
is that many of the current file path names exceed 255 characters. Is there
a technical solution that will automatically truncate the file path name and
assign a numerical sequence during the renaming ?

Thanks

Steve Pendergrass

 

[Harlan Grove]

I "own" a 110 GB Directory on one of my employers servers that is
undergoing a migration project to a larger, faster, more powerful
server. My challenge is that many of the current file path names
exceed 255 characters. Is there a technical solution that will
automatically truncate the file path name and assign a numerical
sequence during the renaming ?

Yes, there's a way to do this, but it has nothing whatsoever to do
with Office, so way off-topic in this newsgroup.

You could ask this in the microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin
newsgroup, which you should be able to access with your browser at

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/co...x?dg=microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin

Even though it has win2000 in its name, it covers batch files and WSH
scripting in all NT-ish versions of Windows. What you want to do CAN
be done using batch files, though it may be easier to do via WSH
scripting.

 

[srpender]

Thanks so much Harlan ... I'm off to the right trail now.