"Long Path Support" was already checked -- I suspect I may have done that a while back, while cleaning a different directory.
I ended up writing a quick script to list out and record the length of every directory+filename in my tree (24MB text file! :o ). Turns out I had LOTS of Really Long path ...
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- Fri Sep 20, 2019 6:28 pm
- Forum: Duplicate Cleaner
- Topic: Name length error during "Create Hardlinks" fatally freezes DC
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- Wed Sep 18, 2019 7:15 pm
- Forum: Duplicate Cleaner
- Topic: Name length error during "Create Hardlinks" fatally freezes DC
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Re: Name length error during "Create Hardlinks" fatally freezes DC
None of the file names are that long, but I have directory trees that have so many branches, I would be unsurprised if there were several trees whose length exceeded 240-260 characters (with or without the file name). I haven't gone digging to count characters, though. DC doesn't give me an ...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 6:41 pm
- Forum: Duplicate Cleaner
- Topic: Name length error during "Create Hardlinks" fatally freezes DC
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Name length error during "Create Hardlinks" fatally freezes DC
Pro version 4.1.2, under Win7Pro 64bit. NTFS file system.
I'm performing a find for 100% duplicate content. This works without any errors or warnings. I end up with several thousand duplicate files in various sub-trees that I need to keep, but want to save the raw drive space. So I use the "select ...
I'm performing a find for 100% duplicate content. This works without any errors or warnings. I end up with several thousand duplicate files in various sub-trees that I need to keep, but want to save the raw drive space. So I use the "select ...