Philo,

Your suggestion worked. I created and named a new folder containing
ony two words and then indivdually copied each file to the new
folder.Then created appropriate folders for the files. Only a few
files of hundreds would not copy because of the file name length.

What a relief - now the new pc has the complete family genealogy
files.Your advice also made me aware of the nesting issue, which I was
unfamiliar with.

Your assistance was a Godsend - many thanks again.

Frank

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:16:08 -0600, philo* wrote:

On 01/21/2014 11:26 AM, ECLiPSE 2002 wrote:
Thanks Philo for the response.

The subfolder that refuses to move or copy is found in C:\Family
Genealoly\Genealogy\Frank&Carmen Family
Histories\Appendices\Murphy_Hebert_ Lafond_Martineau.

"The Murphy_Hebert_Lafond_Martineau"is the subfolder that will not
move or copy all other subfolders will..

The message I get is a popup error message that simply says: ERROR
COPYING FILE OR FOLDER - there is a red circle with an x within and a
a line that says Cannot Copy Folder or alternately Cannot Move Folder
then an OK button.

I have also used Process Explorer hoping it would shed some light on
the problem but all it shows me is that the fault lies with Windows
Explorer.

This has me perplexed and a fix would sure be welcomed.

Frank




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It's either nested too deeply or the number of permissible characters in
the tree has been exceeded.


This should hopefully work:


Create a new folder where you would like to store it...but make sure it
is not too deeply nested...and give it a simple name.


Just for example: C:\Family Genealogy\Murphy



Now navigate to the folder that is not copyable and from /within/ the
folder "select all" . In other words copy all the files contained
within the folder but do not copy the folder itself.

Now copy that and paste it in the new location "Murphy"


Please post back to confirm that it worked or if more help is needed