"Copying Music failed. The filename was too long or invalid."

I've been trying to 'consolidate library' inorder to get all my music held and managed under Itunes so I can delete it from other places on my computer & avoid holding multiple copies (in line with Chris CA's guidance in this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2812666?start=0&tstart=0)
All goes well until I get to the 'consolidate library' step, it starts off copying files & seems to be going alright, then at some point I get the error message :"Copying Music failed. The filename was too long or invalid."
This error message doesn't help me much as I've no idea where to go from here. I've tried consolidating library twice now and got the same message each time.
I'm assuming there must be some way to either fix it or identify the file causing the issue?
Thanks

Unconsolidated should now give you a much shorter list, presumably the difficult track will be either first or last in this list...
I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background. You'll probably have to disable the progress bar again.
It only works on files connected to iTunes that have identical tag info. If you're not certain it might pay to make sure first using iTunes Folder Watch to scan for files that are in the media folder but not in the library. It also has a "scan for dead tracks on startup" option with detects missing files.
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I am trying to move all the music library to my new computer ( this is my 3rd time of changing my PC). I tried to consolidate the library... but the message was
Copying music failed , the file name was invalid or too long"
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To find out which file it was, look at where you were
copying them too and see which was the last file
copied - and then go back to your source, and go to
the next one - it should be that one.
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Duh.
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<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10808126>
I had the same problem: IMAP & POP services would not launch using SSL. Finally got it resolved today. It had nothing to do with certificates and their names, or creating them in openssl, and everything to do with a botched dovecot.conf file, courtesy of Server Admin.
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Copying music failed. The file name was invalid or too long.

I went to consolidate my music, but when it got about 2/3 of the way through, it stopped with the error message, "Copying music failed. The file name was invalid or too long." I don't know which file it is referring to. How do I find this out?
I needed to cosolidate so I could backup the entire library to DVD. Now I'm left with two partially complete libraries with many duplicates.

To find out which file it was, look at where you were
copying them too and see which was the last file
copied - and then go back to your source, and go to
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Well, aren't you lucky I signed in tonight? Sometimes you just have to be patient and wait until a person who might know an answer shows up.
I have had problems with Consolidate too, and getting that stupid error message when the file name was not too long.
The consolidate function starts copying things over by Date Added, with the older ones getting copied first. First in, first out.
What I finally had to do was look in Windows Explorer for the target (new) drive and see the last file that was successfully copied. Let's call it Carole King.
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I want to Consolidate ... I immediately get an error message that says "Copying Music failed. An unknown error occurred (-51).
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