[Gllug] OT: Very long pathnames

[Peter Ball]

Hi

I've got about 50 Gbytes of Windows shares to transfer to a Samba server.

Particularly where users have saved web pages  we end up with crazy long 
path names (especially when the complete web page is saved creating a 
sub-folder sometimes to multiple levels).

Windows will actually save and use pathnames which exceed its own 
specifications (I've got one here where the total path is 264 characters - the 
file name alone is 197 characters).  It works fine until you try to copy the 
share and god knows what it does when you backup, restore, zip, unzip etc.

Does anyone know of any tools Windows or Linux tools which will audit a 
Windows/Samba share and list all pathnames longer than say 200 
characters ?

Thanks




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Peter Ball
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