Hi,
I bought the Win 11 laptop new a month ago. I'm trying to download a lifetimes worth of data. I've been using computers for 40 years, and my data has hundreds to thousands of folders, and tens of thousands of documents. I was able to upload all of it onto a 250 GB thumb drive just fine. When I try to download it onto this computer, I get "file name too long" errors, but not just a few. About a third of what I want to download won't download because of this error.
The first thing I did was get into reg edit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
And changed the LongPathsEnabled value to 1.
Then I also did the Windows Memory Diagnostic, that was fine.
Then I did the SFC ScanNow, and that was fine.
All that was based on this video, , which has stupid music, but the creator seemed to know what he was doing based on the list of videos I saw on his channel.
This did not fix the problem.
So then I downloaded and installed GP Edit (from another video's directions) and then:
Administrative Templates \ system \ filesystem \ enable windows long file path
and I enabled it.
This did not fix the problem.
What should I do next?
Thank you for your time and patience and help.
Sincerely,
Steve
I bought the Win 11 laptop new a month ago. I'm trying to download a lifetimes worth of data. I've been using computers for 40 years, and my data has hundreds to thousands of folders, and tens of thousands of documents. I was able to upload all of it onto a 250 GB thumb drive just fine. When I try to download it onto this computer, I get "file name too long" errors, but not just a few. About a third of what I want to download won't download because of this error.
The first thing I did was get into reg edit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
And changed the LongPathsEnabled value to 1.
Then I also did the Windows Memory Diagnostic, that was fine.
Then I did the SFC ScanNow, and that was fine.
All that was based on this video, , which has stupid music, but the creator seemed to know what he was doing based on the list of videos I saw on his channel.
This did not fix the problem.
So then I downloaded and installed GP Edit (from another video's directions) and then:
Administrative Templates \ system \ filesystem \ enable windows long file path
and I enabled it.
This did not fix the problem.
What should I do next?
Thank you for your time and patience and help.
Sincerely,
Steve