File names in Windows that are up to 255 characters in length. Long file names include spaces and special characters except for slashes, colons, asterisks, open/close brackets, exclamation points and ...

If your business works with and shares numerous files, copying file names can save a lot of time. Typing a file name is easy when the name is short, but long, complex names with special characters are ...

One inherent weakness in WinRAR is its inability to handle long file names and directory structures. Attempting to extract long names from a business RAR file will ...

To fix The source and destination file names are the same error in OneDrive while copying or moving files, follow these suggestions. It is the very first thing you ...

MLStrand56 complained to the Windows forum about Windows’ inability to save file names containing punctuation. [Email your tech questions to [email protected] or post them on the PCW Answer Line forum ...

Why is Mac so fussey with file names when it comes to sharing with Windows? Some users complain of file names too short cause issues. Others say if the files names are too long there can be issues? I ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Terry Hulseberg warns against enabling the Norton Disk Doctor to "check filenames beginning with a period." He did this running NDD 6.x from OS 9 to check an OS X volume. He writes: "If you enable ...

In a blast from the past, a Russian researcher has uncovered a simple bug in the NTFS file system that consistently crashed Windows Vista to Windows 8.1 PCs. Like the ...