Has anyone found a way to take a complete copy of an Ebase installation without Windows complaining about the "Destination Path" being too long.
I have tried using xcopy in the hope that this would by-pass the issue, but it didn't.
Alternatively is there a way to reduce the length of these problem filenames/paths which all exist in the "transport_files" directory, as I guess it would be unlikely for Microsoft to provide a solution
Windows inability to cope with long filenames
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Hi Neil,
I just did this myself and had problems with long filenames.
So I got around this by copying my Ebase folder I wanted to copy into the C:\ drive (Could be root of another drive)
Then I renamed that project and copied it back to the location I originally copied it from..
e.g
C:\AppServers\EbaseInstallations\EbaseXi_4.3
Copied EbaseXi_4.3 folder to C:\EbaseXi_4.3
renamed C:\EbaseXi_4.3 to EbaseXi_5.0
Copied this back again to:
C:\AppServers\EbaseInstallations\EbaseXi_5.0
I hope this helps.
Steve
I just did this myself and had problems with long filenames.
So I got around this by copying my Ebase folder I wanted to copy into the C:\ drive (Could be root of another drive)
Then I renamed that project and copied it back to the location I originally copied it from..
e.g
C:\AppServers\EbaseInstallations\EbaseXi_4.3
Copied EbaseXi_4.3 folder to C:\EbaseXi_4.3
renamed C:\EbaseXi_4.3 to EbaseXi_5.0
Copied this back again to:
C:\AppServers\EbaseInstallations\EbaseXi_5.0
I hope this helps.
Steve
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Hi Steve,
I also found a solution using robocopy:
robocopy /s /e D:\Ebase\capita-ebase-test D:\Ebase\capita-ebase-test.30.09.2015
A command that is well worth exploring.
You can also use it to delete files with long file names using:
mkdir empty_dir
robocopy empty_dir D:\Ebase\dbc-ebase-internal.29.09.2015\ /s /mir
Thanks for replying
Neil
I also found a solution using robocopy:
robocopy /s /e D:\Ebase\capita-ebase-test D:\Ebase\capita-ebase-test.30.09.2015
A command that is well worth exploring.
You can also use it to delete files with long file names using:
mkdir empty_dir
robocopy empty_dir D:\Ebase\dbc-ebase-internal.29.09.2015\ /s /mir
Thanks for replying
Neil
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