Robert_Charlton - 8:42 am on Mar 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

On a Windows XP machine... for simple on-computer data backups, I have a second hard-drive on my machine and routinely copy over my working data to a new folder on it and then delete the old.

Each time I delete the old, though, I trip over one file (I'm guessing one, anyway) whose path, I assume, is too long, and I get a message to the effect that Windows cannot delete "items whose name is too long for the Recycle Bin. Do you want to permanently delete it?" Pain.

I click "yes to all" and everything is fine, but I've got to keep an eye on things and do this manually, every time. I'd like to find the d**** file and rename it, but haven't figured out how to do it.

I should mention that I've already set the target for "My Documents" to a very short name... in my case d:\mydocs\

I'm guessing that this problem is due to probably one file that was automatically named by some app. I'm just trying to locate it. I think Total Commander will rename or delete it after that. If not, I'll need to come back for more advice.

Any thoughts for finding it, somewhere among a great many folders, in some automated way?