Re: Cut Long Names

de shadow 05/09/2006 08:42

On Tue, 09 May 2006 12:58:24 -0400, Susan Bugher <sebugher@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>shadow wrote:
>> On Sun, 07 May 2006 20:41:46 -0400, Susan Bugher <sebugher@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>>shadow wrote:
>>>>On Sun, 07 May 2006 11:34:41 -0400, Susan Bugher <sebugher@yahoo.com>
>>>>wrote:
>
>>>>>>On Sat, 06 May 2006 17:45:19 GMT, Tramp <Jg3q2cB@Jg3q2cB.com>
>>>>>>wrote:
>
>>>>>>>http://www.replsoft.com/cutlongnames.html
>
>> Cut Long Names 1.6b - my impressions
>
>> Only works under Windows NT/XP
>>
>> No Install, simply put the executable where-ever you want it and run
>> it.
>>
>> Does not create any registry entries of its own, nor make any changes
>> to the system. It is of course added to the Registy MRU's and programs
>> List which is normal behavior.
>
>> Can only scan a partition or hard drive, cannot drill down to a single
>> folder.
>
>> It is fast and searches a 10G partition in seconds. it would take
>> somewhat longer when searching through a full hard drive of the chosen
>> extensions I am sure.
>
>> I do not like the auto rename feature when one clicks on start rename,
>> as one is not given a choice as to how to rename. I would recommend
>> testing it on a few files first.
>>
>> One can use it to locate long file names, and manually rename the
>> files oneself. I would be a more confortable and a lot safer doing
>> that anyway. It would have been handy to include the ability to click
>> on a file name and change it to your name of preference from within
>> the utility but that it doesn't do this is more than likely one of the
>> reasons its freeware.
>>
>> It does what it claims to do, doesn't have any bad side effects, and
>> uses very little memory (3.1m when running) or system resources.
>
>> Useful in checking for long files names before creating ISO's and
>> burning backups to CD/DVD disc's, or any other removable media for
>> that matter.
>
>Thanks Shadow. That info is a big help. FWIW Long Filename Finder is
>similar and it looks like it has better features than Cut Long Names.
>
>Program: Long Filename Finder
>Author: DC Software Design Inc. (David Ching)
>Install: (n.i.)
>Ware: Freeware
>http://www.dcsoft.com/
>http://www.dcsoft.com/products/longff/longff.htm
>Version 1.1 (Apr 25, 2002) [297 KB]
>http://www.dcsoft.com/ftp/longff.zip
>Windows 98 / ME / 2K / XP or later
>
>Susan

Just what I was looking for, searching particular directories/folders
thanks for the heads up. If Windows did its job in the first place and
warned of LFN's at their creation instead of waiting until one is in
the middle of copying/moving files to halt with the dreaded "cannot
move/copy" halfway through the task but rarely with the needed "which
file" is causing this difficulty.

Shadow