Destination Path Too Long having this problem on desk top computer

Question

Destination Path Too Long
when I try to move files from my desk top screen to my external hard drive or my internal hard drive I get this error message:
Path Too Long: The file name(s) would be too long for the destination folder. You can shorten the file name and try again, or try a location that has a shorter path.
These are files that I have previously moved from my internal hard drive on to my desk top [screen] computer, this error seems to pop up on my desk top not my lap top, both running windows
7. These files do not have long names, and I can not "skip" these files these are files that I have created for business or fun.
I am not a computer tech so if some one could instruct me what to do I would appreciate this.

Answer 1

Hi,
the destination path is the full path you are copying to. In case of a library for example that would be (by default) c:\users\username\folder. The length of paths quickly adds up and may not exceed 255. Copying the file to a longer destination
path would render the file inaccesible in standard ways.
Consider to try copying the files to a shorter destination path (not to c:\folder\longfolder\subfolder\folder\ but to c:\x\for example). Please post back if that does not work either.
The foldername in your screenshot alone already has 40 about characters. Consider using shorter descriptive names for your folders. For example 'Bible scripts FB2010' only contains 22 characters and contains more or less the same info)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177665
If you still use large folderstructures to 'easily' track down your files, consider spending less time arranging files and using search more often. If I for example would need some file, I tap the windows key and start typing some part of the filename or
even it's contents or tags. Usually before I have typed  afew characters, the startmenu shows exactly the document or picture I need. I' ve got about 4000 documents of all kinds stored in "my documents" only roughly spread over some folder like Letter,
Script, Work, House\*year*, Pay\*year*...Index your folders, use a bit of tagging and let the computer do the work!
Also, Windows does contain methods to access longer filepaths (see
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winservergen/thread/cc7491ae-5039-4cf5-8347-d43f22389bb0) but these are not recommended for daily use as applications might fail handling files stored in such paths.
MCP/MCSA/MCTS/MCITP