Hi Again Ann & Rick, Okay here's an update. The drive's file system is NTSF, sorry I didn't mention this in my last post. What happened is that I noticed this particular backup job taking way too long so, I cancelled it out & what I mentioned earlier was the remains of this particular backup job. Well, I tried to get to the end of the file path, which is according to properties 15 sub-folders deep. When I get to the last folder & try to delete nothing happens so, I back out & go 1 level up with the same results! Since the total size of this folder & sub-folders is a grand total of, 0 bytes, I may just leave it until I can copy everything off this external drive to another drive, reformat this drive, & then put everything back. What a pain in the keester! Thanks again for your input.
Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike B. To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 4:24 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How Do I Delete This Folder Hi Ann & Rick, Changing the folder names to blah blah.txt would not allow me to delete them. Rick, I can't seem to get to the end of the app data path, for whatever reason. It's crazy! Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Justice To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How Do I Delete This Folder Hi Mike, I ran into this quite some time ago, but I got the error from my XP system. Since these are on your backup drive, I take it replicator put them there? If you were to follow the path on the backup drive,, I think you might find that "App Data", is replicated many times In other words, if you open "App Data", you may find another one in there etc. In my case, since XP gave me the error, when trying to delete, I believe that I ended up connecting the drive directly to the Win7 machine, where the folders started out in the first place, and was able to delete them. This is why I don't backup the "App Data folder on Win7. You may have to try and get all the way to the end of the path, and start working backwards deleting each one at the end of the path. I don't know of any dos commands that would get it done,since there too many characters in the path, which is probably why Windows is rejecting it. Is the backup drive formatted as NTFS, or Fat32? HTH, Rick Justice Tomorrow's another day, another way! and if tomorrow never comes, problem solved! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike B." <[email protected]> To: "Jaws-Users List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 5:08 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] How Do I Delete This Folder Hi All, I'm trying to delete a particular folder & sub-folder from my backup drive but, I can't! I keep getting the following message: Source Path Too Long The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file system. Try moving to a location which has a shorter path name, or try renaming to shorter name(s) before attempting this operation. 11.0 Date created: 6/11/2014 6:54 AM Skip Cancel Do this for all current items (5 found) How do I change the source path / file name so I can delete these folders? The current paths are: "L:\Users Mike" "L:\Users Mike\AppData" Thsize of the folders are 0.0 bytes if, this helps. I don't know how to make these file paths any shorter! I'm running Win7 Pro 64 Bit & J15 latest. All help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. Take care. Mike This email was sent from my, iBarstool. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
