What Are You Doing Right Now
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Looking for software that will list file names and paths at the 255 limit, and then truncate them down if possible.
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@DustinB3403 driving
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Not really seeing much that does this, which doesn't seem totally sketchy at best. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Not really seeing much that does this, which doesn't seem totally sketchy at best. . .
IIRC there's a way you can do it with linux that works great, but I last used it 5 years ago so... maybe it'll help your googling
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@MattSpeller It may.
The trouble I'm attempting to address (without breaking people's fingers) is that they save things with super long 255+ character paths, as they use Apple products, which apparently aren't subject to this limitation.
But our Servers are.
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Which of course has to be done carefully, as I don't want to break any network shares or files.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Which of course has to be done carefully, as I don't want to break any network shares or files.
No matter how you do it I'd take a backup (at least one) first haha
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Windows storage session. Just finished lunch.
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It got quiet around here.
Some of us work.
Not us. Just someone.
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It got quiet around here.
Some of us work.
OK @Texkonc sure. . .
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But seriously anyone know of any tools that can shorten a network path name? And not just in a terminal, but the physical path name.
E:\dsfbgsdfg\2314312363456\sdfgwesd\2011\452345\2011a\32452345 wsdfgbvw\23452345\
to
E:\dsfbg\2314. . . . . .
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@DustinB3403 my google-fu top result - never tried it
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@DustinB3403 If you are using drive letters to do this, just map a drive
f: to point to
\server\share\dsfbgsdfg\2314312363456\sdfgwesd\2011\452345\2011a\32452345 wsdfgbvw\23452345\ -
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
But seriously anyone know of any tools that can shorten a network path name? And not just in a terminal, but the physical path name.
E:\dsfbgsdfg\2314312363456\sdfgwesd\2011\452345\2011a\32452345 wsdfgbvw\23452345\
to
E:\dsfbg\2314. . . . . .
Please tell me that some of that actually makes sense to you. Orders? Invoices? Customer #'s? Don't have to explain it to me. Just tell me you understand it.
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
But seriously anyone know of any tools that can shorten a network path name? And not just in a terminal, but the physical path name.
E:\dsfbgsdfg\2314312363456\sdfgwesd\2011\452345\2011a\32452345 wsdfgbvw\23452345\
to
E:\dsfbg\2314. . . . . .
Please tell me that some of that actually makes sense to you. Orders? Invoices? Customer #'s? Don't have to explain it to me. Just tell me you understand it.
Pretty sure that's just gibberish.
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I saw that, but it only lists the file paths that are over a set limit, it does nothing to rename them.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
But seriously anyone know of any tools that can shorten a network path name? And not just in a terminal, but the physical path name.
E:\dsfbgsdfg\2314312363456\sdfgwesd\2011\452345\2011a\32452345 wsdfgbvw\23452345\
to
E:\dsfbg\2314. . . . . .
Please tell me that some of that actually makes sense to you. Orders? Invoices? Customer #'s? Don't have to explain it to me. Just tell me you understand it.
Pretty sure that's just gibberish.
Yeah just gibberish.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
But seriously anyone know of any tools that can shorten a network path name? And not just in a terminal, but the physical path name.
E:\dsfbgsdfg\2314312363456\sdfgwesd\2011\452345\2011a\32452345 wsdfgbvw\23452345\
to
E:\dsfbg\2314. . . . . .
Please tell me that some of that actually makes sense to you. Orders? Invoices? Customer #'s? Don't have to explain it to me. Just tell me you understand it.
Pretty sure that's just gibberish.
Yeah just gibberish.
Have you considered a naming convention of some sort for your file servers and locking it down?
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@NerdyDad Yeah . . . . only been at the new job a month.
This is just a trouble issue as I'm trying to archive things from past years and the user base here has been allowed to do whatever they want.