Copying Folders and Interuption Occurs

Hi,
I am trying to copy about 8gb of photo folders to a network drive. A pop-up comes up and says I can not copy because a file name is too long. It gives me no option to skip and continue. How can I pike up where I left off? When I click out the copy stops and closes.
Thanks

I have a few thoughts which may or may not help. There could be a corrupted file, or even one with a name that's too long. What type of network drive are you copying to? There's also the possibility of updating to 10.4.11 - perhaps there's something that has been fixed since 10.4.6 that's causing the problem. Booting form a CD/DVD and repairing the HD with DiskUtility wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Jeff

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Hi,
I tried the above solution but what i want is that the action of copying folders and subfolders along with the files should be done with promises and that promise should return only when all folders,sunfolders and their files have been copied. I want to
do it in this way because I want to perform certain second action only when all things are copied.
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So I came up with following above code,first copy folders then copy. The copy folder works as expected but the files are getting copied only when the file copying code enters the success call back.
Can you please shed light on my code where I am going wrong.
Or is it ok to proceed ahead with the solution you mentioned at the link cause I dont want any runtime crashes.
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