"Unexpected error from PerformRedirection. The filename or extension is too long."
"Unexpected error from PerformRedirection. The filename or extension is too long."
I have read different replies in Microsoft's Answers for Windows Forum. I, then, submitted the question below to that Forum. The Moderator referred me to this Acronis Disk Director Forum.
I do not seem to be able to find a solution to my problem (at least an understandable one). Also, I certainly do not want to make changes to Windows that I might regret!
I have installed a new, third internal drive of 2 TB to my computer. Using Acronis Director 2011, I set up the drive as a dynamic disk GPT partioning it into two roughly equal parts using Acronis Director 2011. (My PC uses Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I also have Aconis True Image 2011.)
One of the new drive's two partitions I designated the "Data Drive". The other one I have reserved for a future use. In moving my data files over to the "Data Drive" partition, I have so far moved My Videos, Pictures, Music, Favorites, Downloads, Contacts (Windows). However, the last data file that I planned to move, "My Documents", will not relocate using the Properties screen's Location tab of "My Documents" on the original C drive. Instead after a YES-NO screen asking if I want to move all of My Documents, I receive the following error message: "Unexpected error from PerformRedirection. The filename or extension is too long." No matter what I have tried I have not been able to move the My Documents file from the C drive to the Data File partition on the new third internal drive.
The move would be as below:
From— C:\Users\Sam Alien\Documents
To— I:\My Documents {Note: The third drive is labeled the Q drive and is accessable through one of the two partion drives (I or K).
Attached is a screen shot of my current Disk Director layout.
Can someone help me finish this task off-loading my data files from my "C" (which, BTW, is composed of two drives in Raid 0)?
Thanks,
Frustrated [:>[
I have had similar problem, Long Path Tool sorted it out.
Then click the start button and click on your User name near the top,
Right click the My Doc's folder and select Properties,
Go to the Location section and use this Find target and navigate to where you want.
See if you get the same error.
My crude fix seems to have worked OK. After deleting all the contents of My Documents, I was easily able to redirect the empty folder to my D: drive.
I then recovered all of the contents of the My Documents folder from my backup image to my D: drive. Although it took many hours via USB2, it seemingly worked fine. Coincidentally, the recovery hung on one filename because it was too long. It was a "Recycler" file and I just skipped it. So that one file may have been the sole cause of my original problem. But out of 86K of files I had no realistic chance of locating it in any way other than what I did.
I've resized my partitions now the way I want them and both C: & D: drives have ample free space and my computer is operating much faster than it has in a very long time.
As I said yesterday, I sincerely thank you for staying with me on this issue. I wish I could have been more technically apt in my description and my approach but, this has been the best I could do.