One of the things to watch out for is if windows is set up to show hidden and 
system filles which it WILL COPY when doing drag and drop file copying. If you 
drag from a ntfs to a fat32 even from root to root you could have these problems

I verified this by creating c:\test\hiddenfolder and setting the hiddenfolder 
property's to hidden.
then set explorer to hide hidden files (tools, folder options, view, files and 
folders, hidden files and folders, do not show hidden files and folders).

Now drag the test folder to a different disk (or empty spot on the same disk) 
and make the hidden/system files visible again
there will be a hiddenfolder in the copy of the test folder.

PvH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Hard drive repair


> Mike Hord wrote:
>> Because I get that message when copying from
>> C:\Music to F:\Music.  That's a damn short path
>> to be complaining about.
>
> Not necessarily.  The pathnames of the tops of the two trees may be short,
> but how do you know there aren't files in there somwhere that have long
> pathnames?
>
>
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