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can't burn files with long name ?

April 20th, 2013, 12:53

good evening ..

so a customer wants his data burned into DVD (data ~2Giga).

trying to burn the recovered files using windows 7 default burn tool , is givving errors (~580 errors) because of long files names .

trying to compress the recovered folder using winrar to burn one big rar file , is givving an error also !! that some files names are too long .


any one passed on this situation before ?

thank you

Re: can't burn files with long name ?

April 20th, 2013, 15:11

What was the filesystem type, which originally held the customer's files? In other words - was it an NTFS filesystem on the hard disk, which you recovered the files from, or some other filesystem type (explain which one) that you recovered the files from?

Re: can't burn files with long name ?

April 20th, 2013, 16:10

You need to move those folders that have long filenames closer to the root directory.

Re: can't burn files with long name ?

April 20th, 2013, 17:12

thank you for your reply .

i was trying to avoide tracking down each folder that containes files with long names , i just located them manually and moved them to a closer new folder to the root

Re: can't burn files with long name ?

April 22nd, 2013, 13:34

raven4d wrote:good evening ..

so a customer wants his data burned into DVD (data ~2Giga).

trying to burn the recovered files using windows 7 default burn tool , is givving errors (~580 errors) because of long files names .

trying to compress the recovered folder using winrar to burn one big rar file , is givving an error also !! that some files names are too long .


any one passed on this situation before ?

thank you


Hi Dear Friend Raven4d

Just Move It To Root Directory Like C:your Folder Or D:/Your Folder And Make ISO Image Using UltraIso
And Burn That ISO Image Or Compress That ISO With Winrar And Burn It.

Yours Friend
Jignesh Pankhania

Re: can't burn files with long name ?

April 25th, 2013, 18:36

thank u all
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