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  • mathdu

    • Jul 2026
    • 1

    #1

    Network Share: Long path and filenames

    When I sync my FLAC files (Win11) via Network Share to another location (Win11) as mp3 files I often get the message "Last Sync Incomplete". The log says "Unable to store '\\192.168...', check disk space and access rights".
    I found out that the problem occcurs when my "folder/subfolder_1/.../subfolder_n" structure together with some long filenames (classical music!) exceeds about 250 characters.
    I can tame this with something like
    "[origpath]\[MAXLENGTH]80,[track].[title][]" (but in my case not with "[origpath]\[MAXLENGTH]100,[track].[title][]")
    but the filenames of the mp3 files then often are not very informative (like "1. Symp", "2. Symp", ...)
    Is there a way to allow long path/filenames when I sync Win11 to Win11?
    Thanks in advance for your answer
    Martin
  • Spoon-
    Administrator
    • Apr 2002
    • 46117

    #2
    Never go above 250 chars, many applications and even parts of Windows will not operate correctly with those files.
    Spoon-
    www.dbpoweramp.com

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    • schmidj
      dBpoweramp Supporter
      • Nov 2013
      • 598

      #3
      Note the character limit only applies to file and directory names, not to tags, I think there are some limits for some formats on tag lengths, but I've never run into it (although I've run into issues with the field lengths in some tagging software.) So properly tag your files with all that information, but crop the file and directory names, either automatically (with Maxlength, etc) or manually by just using shorter filenames.

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