file path too long when collecting…

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file path too long when collecting…

Posted by Jimmy Brunger on June 4, 2009 at 3:45 pm

Hi all,

REALLY hope someone has some wisdom on this! I’ve searched forums and the web and not yet found an answer….

I’ve got a MASSIVE project on an external drive that’s on the way out, so I want to collect the project that’s on it to another new healthy drive. The current file structure leaves alot to be desired (several years of updating the same project and splitting it into managable portions then importing them back together several times, files still on there that aren’t in use in AE anymore but have been kept ‘incase we need them again later’, etc…you can imagine the mess!)

SO, I’m getting the ‘file path too long’ error when trying to collect it. Now, I could manually go through every folder and sub folder and tidy things up within AE – this would days about a week I reckon! – but I’ll do it if that’s the only way. What I’m wondering is this: –

A) is the problem AE is having with the deep structure *WITHIN* ae project, or with the actual folders/files on the disk itself?

B) if I tidy it up in AE only will that fix it?

C) is there an easier way to do this rather than manually going through everything and looking for the offenders???

Thanks guys,
Jim.

AE7 Pro – Nucleo – Mocha v1.2.3 – PS CS3 – FCP 5.1.4
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Alan Baker replied 2 weeks, 6 days ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Jimmy Brunger
June 9, 2009 at 9:14 am

Can anyone help!?

Production Premium CS4 – Mocha v1.2.3 – FCP 5.1.4
MacPro Quad 3GHz / ATI 1900XT / 8GB RAM / OSX 10.4.11
30″ ACD / Decklink SP / SONY PVM-20M4E/ Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / XServe / United Digital RAID
———————————
Production Premium CS2 – Combustion 3 – Mocha v1.0.1
Win XP Pro 32 / Dell Precision T3400 Q6600 / 4GB RAM / NVidia Quadro570 / DeckLink Pro / Roland DS-5s / Sony BVM-20G1E / 2 x Dell 2007FP / Wacom Intuos 3 A4 / 320GB boot/800GB RAID-0
marc carlson
June 19, 2024 at 12:45 pm

And finally an answer ! I tried LongPath Tool Program to good effect.
Alan Baker
September 23, 2024 at 6:49 pm

You can use LongPathTool to solve this issue.

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