![]() ![]() To be safe, I manually re-name only user data files such as movies, pictures, documents, music files, etc. It could possibly break a program or operating system by re-naming critical paths and/or filenames. There is no way I would let a utility shorten these characters on its own. Note: I ONLY USE TLPD because there are other utilities that search for and then automatically re-name files and paths that are too long. Thanks to or-ben-shabat for this excellent utility. Most times they only need to be shortened a little. Using that list, simply navigate with Windows Explorer (aka File Explorer) to the file or path and change the name of it to something shorter. If the default '200' characters creates too large a list, start to narrow down the longest names by selecting 230 or 240 characters, for example.Īfter it completes (very quickly) it will open a Notepad text document listing the paths and filenames that exceed the number of characters you specified in 'Threshold:'. Then select a 'Threshold:' and enter a number of characters that you do not want the path and/or filename to exceed. Run it, either select 'Yes' to check all drives or 'No' to select a path or individual drive to check. It does not install, only runs as portable. This TLPD utility for finding filenames that exceed or are close to the Windows 255 character limit is excellent. The version I have now is the update after that, fixing most problems, Windows 10 Version 1607 Build 14393.105. Downloaded this version (named 'Last Update: ') and installed on Windows 10 (64-bit) version that is AFTER Anniversary Edition which has caused so many problems with software. ![]()
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