You cannot drag and drop an illegal length filename within Explorer. It's a limit. Use the program that allowed you to create the illegal filename in the first place to change the filename, or move it. Read the instructions provided in the links above on how to use the extended command. Before Windows 95, Windows only allowed file names that were eight characters long, with a three character file extension–commonly known as an 8.3 filename. Vmware files for patched mac os x tiger intel download. Windows 95 abandoned that to allow long file names, but still limited the maximum path length (which includes the full folder path and the file name) to 260 characters.

If you let iTunes 'Keep the iTunes Media folder organized' it will use folder and file names with a maximum of 40 characters, inclusive of the extension characters. The following characters are replaced with an underscore. ' and also; (which is a valid filename character). A leading space or period is also replaced, as is a trailing period for a folder name.

Trailing spaces are stripped. Windows has a 255 character limit for filenames. That said is it still sometimes possible to bury files deeper than that by accident, for example if higher level folders are renamed. This can cause problems accessing the files. I don't know why iTunes for Windows imposes the 40 character limit, but if you don't have the 'Keep organized' option set you can put things where you want before you import them to iTunes and they will stay as you left them. I used to manually tweak, remove and reimport stuff but these days I have a custom script that renames files according to my rules (different character substitutions, longer paths, certain genre specific folders etc.) and then automatically reconnects iTunes to the files.

The forced 40 character filename truncation seems rather arbitrary to me. Os x backup partition using dd 2017. It is performed whether or not the truncation is actually necessary. Here is the pathname for one of my files before iTunes 'fixes' it: T: iTunesTempMedia music Pink Floyd (Screaming Abdabs) The Committee And Other Stories V - Pink Floyd (Screaming Abdabs) - The Committee And Other Stories, side 1.aif Its about 166 characters and one of the longest, if not the longest, pathnames I have in iTunes. Now, here is how iTunes mangles the filename: T: iTunesTempMedia music Pink Floyd (Screaming Abdabs) The Committee And Other Stories V - Pink Floyd (Screaming Abdabs) -.aif That's about 127 characters in length. So it is obvious that iTunes truncated the filename even though the truncation of the filename was not necessary. If iTunes truncated the filename only when it is really necessary, I would not have a issue with that. However, it is the completely arbitrary nature of the truncation that I dislike.