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nkormanik

Member

From: Salt Lake City

Registered: 2015-02-26

Posts: 23

Truncate Filename to 100 Characters

I downloaded some ebooks with really long file names.

Q#1.  Assume these files are in folder "c:\longnames".  How can I tell ReNamer to truncate the filenames to just the first 100 characters?

Q#2.  If the files are 'nested' deep inside a directory hierarchy (so that the total path lengths exceed 260 characters) will the suggested approach need to be modified?  Can it even be accomplished?

Thanks much!

Nicholas Kormanik

Stefan

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From: Germany, EU

Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 1,114

Re: Truncate Filename to 100 Characters

You may want to re-use the old answers: Long Path Solution?

 

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nkormanik

Member

From: Salt Lake City

Registered: 2015-02-26

Posts: 23

Re: Truncate Filename to 100 Characters

Long path problems have been a huge issue.  Google search shows so many complaints.

If files are located deep within a hierarchy, unless one knows some secret, they are pretty much stuck there.

After extensive searching for solutions, the simple answer appears to be:

\\?\

Appending that to the start of the query.

I'm still trying to figure it out.