re: Can't copy b/c ''filename or extension is too long''
Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 7:12 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by William Ashley
(2 messages posted)
Ok this is after the fact so it may not be much help however when planning your structure
you may like to have a better ongological hierarchy(directory system)
I think what you are going to have to do in this case is to have those files moved
up the directory tree. For instance if you have here/here2/here3/here4/here5/etc................................/etc......................................................................................................../thisismyfile.ext
you will need to move it to a folder here 4 or here 5.. that totally messes up your
directory tree. The other alternative of course is to change your here1 to h1 here
to to h2 etc.. perhaps adding a text file to explain your nomenclature. It is a huge
limitation on large projects however I think linux and unix can get around this.
The answer of course is to have a "datacore" this core has all you data on it. Either
in one file or individually. This /core directory has all your real data. Your hierarchy
is held in a "file.ref" file which is basically your directory tree. However the
OS then goes to the file.ref and gets the location of the /root/filenom.ext Essentially
using a directory tree in a directory.
File names themselves could be listed as whatever. However due to dataprocessing
speed graphics painting etc.. you may like to limit it to the first 8 or so.
As far as your specific question, if the hierarchy is vital you are fuxored, for
say html etc.. however you could just do a find replace option for all your largenamed
files using "small names"
Honestly the system I just described should be used for interface. Having a "tecnom"
and a "usrnom" tecnom being used for techincal processes being a serial where as
usrnom is housed in the file.ref. The usr nom is only displayed or "in session" in
ram process. Where as any other processes are housed behind.
There should bo reason why the usrnom should extend beyond 256 characters unless
there are ALLOT of files I.E. FOR 128character 8 bit as you would have to have 340,282,366,920,939,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
posibilities for tecnom file names hence give or take a few filenames. The actual
number of usrnom filenames would be effectively unlimited (to the size of your harddrive/ram
etc... re: hardware) .
The important thing to remember that files are chunked and scattered all across a
harddrive. Using "shortnames" for directories and making a explaining tree.nav file..
even as an htm linking the files.. that is a "virtual directory". Is something that
you can visually see. UR FUXORED MAKE SMALLER DIRECTORIES AND DONT USE LONG FILENAMES
c.2005 William Ashley
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