Is it possible, in Windows, for a file to become inaccessible because it has a very, very long file name, and then, on top of that, it is moved again to an even longer path? I had a video file, which worked fine the last time I played it. (It was probably moved in the meantime.) Now, when I double-click on it, I hear a dull 'clink' noise, and, when I right-click it, I only see a few of the options I should see (- no 'Properties', for example). It's as if it doesn't exist anymore. The 'Properties' of the folder it's in doesn't include the size of that file in its total size, either. Is this file recoverable? Thanks in advance.
Ddp: I apologize for not posting in the right forum. It was an honest mistake. Pcrepair: Can you please tell me how to shorten it, at this point? I can't rename it, I can't open it, and it doesn't even seem to be acknowledged as existing on the hard-drive. (See first post.) Thanks.
I think we only come across this problem when we are saving data for a format so we just delete the file but you could try shortening the containing folders names to a single letter on the way in to the offending file,which would make the 'filename' effectively shorter
