I love the PML (Production Music Live) stuff and think they're definitely a market leader in what they do, be it courses, presets, and sample packs. However, one things they seem to do is have folder within folder within folders that result in a huge string of characters for file names. This normally goes beyond the 260 character limit for Windows, and so I often get an error about transferring PML stuff to my storage drive(s), being the one below:



Is there any way to work around this without having to spend an age manually renaming a bunch of things to try and pot luck it down to sub-260 characters?

I've tried:

• enabling Long Paths in registry; and
• using xcopy command as Admin (which fails due to there being spaces in many of the file names etc, so necessitates manual intervention again).

 

Make sure the destination path is a short as possible. So make a directory like C:\a and copy all files there. From there you can 'move' the content to other locations on that drive.

 

I went through with Bulk Rename Utility and renamed all folders and files to "PML" instead of Production Music Live

 

Already the case. It's S:\Samples, so can't be much shorter without being the root.

 

Done this too and always call them PML to try and shorten, but it still seems to happen.

 

S:\Samples is already 6 characters more than S:\s ? Maybe just what you need to be within 256 characters?

 

I get that, but PML need to be realistic here too. Some users will only have the OS' C:\ drive and it's obviously not realistic to expect people to store all this stuff on their C:\ root drive. There has to be enough space to accommodate so kind of organisation rather than using up the entire 260+ characters for their own file structures without giving users an option to even organise the stuff anywhere except for the root of a drive.

 

This worked. Cheers for the prompt. I forget about the File Manager aspect and only use 7z as an archive/zip tool!