Damn Windows

[13Gigatons]

Was about to delete a folder of files that I thought were corrupt, turns out the filename and foldername was to long.

You think windows would give you a friendly warning about exceding the limits.

 

[bracut80]

holy $hit, i have seen some pretty long file and folder names that windows accepted and that was ridiculous. were you writing a book?

 

[loic2003]

It's a well known problem with windows. Just be glad you don't use '95 where there were occasions when you simply couldn't delete these folders. Ever.

 

[Schadenfroh]

holy $hit, i have seen some pretty long file and folder names that windows accepted and that was ridiculous. were you writing a book?

probably this post

 

[13Gigatons]

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: loic2003
It's a well known problem with windows. Just be glad you don't use '95 where there were occasions when you simply couldn't delete these folders. Ever.

I couldn't delete them, lucky for me I just decided to rename the folder and realized to check them agian and they were working agian.

 

[loic2003]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: loic2003
It's a well known problem with windows. Just be glad you don't use '95 where there were occasions when you simply couldn't delete these folders. Ever.

I couldn't delete them, lucky for me I just decided to rename the folder and realized to check them agian and they were working agian.

Ah right... so a basic problem that hasn't been fixed even though one of the richest companies in the world with massive resources has had ten years and multiple releases of new operating systems to get it right. Yep... sounds about right. :thumbsup: MS!

Consider a mac, maybe? Dunno... might not be for you. They aren't for everyone.

 

[chcarnage]

In Windows you can't have folder hierarchies that exceed 255 levels. So I've heard at least, I can't test it here.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

 

[Scarpozzi]

Boohoo. 😛

 

[chuckywang]

Some of the pr0n that I have contain REALLY long file names. I guess they just wanted it to show up during pr0n searches.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

Yar matey.

 

[mzkhadir]

Originally posted by: PowerMacG5

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

Yar matey.

looks like you have cd keys embedded in the file name, which I would take out.

 

[captains]

Originally posted by: PowerMacG5

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

Yar matey.

hahahahahaha

 

[DingDingDao]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Nice :disgust:

Way to admit on an open forum that you are in possession of illegal software. The CD key ends with hjkkhj-hjkjk? I think not :|

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Nice :disgust:

Way to admit on an open forum that you are in possession of illegal software. The CD key ends with hjkkhj-hjkjk? I think not :|

tried it eh? 😛

 

[DingDingDao]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Nice :disgust:

Way to admit on an open forum that you are in possession of illegal software. The CD key ends with hjkkhj-hjkjk? I think not :|

tried it eh? 😛

Yes........no. Regardless of what opinion someone may have of Microsoft, theft is theft. Using an illegal copy of Windows is no different than xeroxing a book.

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

To you and all that followed you, it is NOT warez. They are official downloads from Microsoft. I added the cd-key to the folder and filename because I always forget them and then I have to go and lookup the email that Microsoft sent. The cd-key was changed after I copied and pasted it.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx

Please don't assume that everything is warez.

 

[PanzerIV]

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

To you and all that followed you, it is NOT warez. They are official downloads from Microsoft. I added the cd-key to the folder and filename because I always forget them and then I have to go and lookup the email that Microsoft sent. The cd-key was changed after I copied and pasted it.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx

Please don't assume that everything is warez.

Haha. Looks like you just owned some ATOTers.

 

[Snapster]

You you tried moving it's parent folder (drag and drop) to the root of c: ? We've had problems on our network with long filenames/paths that you can't do anything with, but drag and drop to a lesser named folder helped loads.

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: Snapster
You you tried moving it's parent folder (drag and drop) to the root of c: ? We've had problems on our network with long filenames/paths that you can't do anything with, but drag and drop to a lesser named folder helped loads.

The folder was on a different computer and then moved across a network which added a bunch of directories to it. I first thought it had corrupted on transfer. I really hate the "Documents and Settings" folder, I usually have it renamed to DAS just to shorten the name but I forgot to do that when installing last time.

2005 and Microsoft still hasn't fixed this problem. It would have been easy enough to give a warning when exceeding the limit.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: PowerMacG5

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

Yar matey.

looks like you have cd keys embedded in the file name, which I would take out.

Looks like the OP is a DUMB@$$ :thumbsdown:

 

[Hoober]

Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Originally posted by: mzkhadir

Originally posted by: PowerMacG5

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: 13Gigatons
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Microsoft Operating Systems\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso\Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) FhjhhF-HhjghjWJ-7jkjkR-hjkjkhj-hjkjk.iso

Maybe if you weren't downloading warez, you wouldn't have this problem.

:roll:

Yar matey.

looks like you have cd keys embedded in the file name, which I would take out.

Looks like the OP is a DUMB@$$ :thumbsdown:

Not too bright, are you?

 

[40Hands]

Yep. Looks like we have some idiots here. (supprise!) and its not the OP.