File name compare across servers

I am not using this for ID files, but think most scripters will know more than I -
I am trying to compare file names (folders) by numbers on two separate servers. If a folder with the same name appears on both servers, I'd like to combine them on one server and delete the other off the second server.
Any ideas? I have 214,605 jobs on one server and 213,500 jobs to cross reference to one another.

KSCoastal wrote:
I am not using this for ID files, but think most scripters will know more than I -
I am trying to compare file names (folders) by numbers on two separate servers. If a folder with the same name appears on both servers, I'd like to combine them on one server and delete the other off the second server.
Any ideas? I have 214,605 jobs on one server and 213,500 jobs to cross reference to one another.
On PC you can use TotalCommander.
robin
www.adobescripts.com

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C:\123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J 123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T 123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X1234\ 123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J
123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T 123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X12\ 123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J 123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T
123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X\ 123456789A123456789B123456789C123456789D123456789E123456789F123456789G123456789H123456789I123456789J 123456789K123456789L123456789M123456789N123456789O123456789P123456789Q123456789R123456789S123456789T 123456789U123456789V123456789W123456789X123456.txt
You have a folder length of over 700 and a file length of over 250 for a total of over 950
However you will notice that each folder, when created, could only be a maximum of 247 charachters including the path (example C:\ , & C:\A , & C:\A\B
This only applies backwards, that is up the path. It did not matter what was further down the path.
Now, you can't easily access or rename the file, but you can rename the folders easily.
For best results, start renaming from the top of the Tree, working down the subfolders, because renaming from down up will limit you, and in fact won't work if the folder lengths are too long.
So how might knowing this help us?
Well, to copy this long_file from the C:\ drive to the D:\ drive, and keeping the path structure, this should work:
Note the name of the top folder. Rename it to something very short, say: A (Make sure C:\A does not exist)
Note the name of the 2nd folder. Rename it to something very short, say: B (Make sure C:\A\B does not exist)
Note the name of the 3rd folder. Rename it to something very short, say: C (Make sure C:\A\B\C does not exist)
Make sure D:\A does not exist - then copy the A folder on disk C: to disk D: (which gives you D:\A\B\C\long_file
Rename D:\A\B\C to D:\A\B\Original_3rd_Folder_name
Rename D:\A\B to D:\A\B\Original_2nd_Folder_name
Rename D:\A to D:\Original_top_Folder_name
Rename C:\A\B\C back to their original names, in this same reverse order starting with C, then B, then A
Note: If using Explorer, at some points you might have to press the F5 refresh key.
This is of course how you might copy such long path/files without using the other more "easy" techniques for the "normal" everyday user like:
sharing a sub-folder
using the commandline to assign a drive letter by means of SUBST
using AddConnectionunder VB to assign a drive letter to a path
using the "\\?\" prefix to a path string to tell the Windows APIs to disable all string parsing and to send the string that follows it straight to the file system
and so on.
See how simple Windows can be for Dummies!
But then, how can we know that files to be copied exceed this MAX_PATH? Or also after a copy has taken place, know exactly which files that have NOT been copied because of exceeding the MAX_PATH limit, and then a procedure to copy these either by renaming
them, or by copying them intact as they are?
There have been suggestions to use
LongPathTool, but this does not have a facility to check a series of folders and tell you which files are going to be caught by the error when copying. So once a copy has taken place using Windows 7, one does not know which files did not get copied, and
where exactly they are located.
Neither does the free
Old Path Scanner do that. It can only check for overly long directory paths, but misses out when the directory path is within limits, but adding in the file name puts it out of bounds.
So, as shown above, it is ever so easy to create a long file/path using explorer.exe
So, what then is an easy way (no, not by listing out all the files in a directory to a text file and counting characters), perhaps using a shell extension, to find out which files in a directory and it's subdirectories will be (or were) too long to copy,
(and then perhaps even copying those over either intact or renamed)?

This is a not a "solution" ....but a "work around": a low tech fix....for error message "your file name is too long to be copied, deleted, renamed, moved" :
1.   problem is this: the "file name" has a limit on number of characters.....the sum of characters really includes the entire path name; you gotta shorten it first (i.e, if the total number of characters in the file name + Path name are over the
limit, the error appears). The deeper your file folder sub levels are, the more this problem will come up, especially when you copy to a subfolder of a subfolder/subfolder of another path ...adds to character limit)
2. How do you know which combined file names + path names are too long if you are in the middle of a copy operation and this error pops up? Some files copied but the "long files error message" says "skip" or "cancel" ... but not which
files are the "too long" ones. If you hit "skip" or "cancel" the "too long" files are left behind...but are mixed in with non-offender "good" "short name" files.   Sorting thru 1000s of "good" files to find a few "bad" ones manually is impractical.
3.   Here's how you sort out the "bad" from the "good":
4.    Let's say you want to copy a folder ..."Football" ...that has five layers of subfolders; each subfolder contains numerous files:
C:/1 Football / 2 teams/ 3 players/ 4 stats/ 5 injuriessidelineplayerstoolong
       There are five levels root "1 football" with subfolders 2, 3, 4 and lastly "5 injuries"
5.    Use "cut" and "paste" (for example to backup all five levels to a new backup folder):
       select "1 football" ....cut....select target folder....paste
       ("cut" command means as the files are copied to the target destination, the file is deleted from the source location)
      Hint: avoid "cut" and "paste" to a target folder that is itself a sub/sub/sub folder ...that compounds the "characters over the limit" problem ...because the characters in the sub/sub/sub folder are included in the "file name
character limit"...instead "paste" to a C:/ root directory.
       Suppose in the middle of this operation...error pops up: "5 files have file names that are too long" Skip or cancel?
       select "skip" ...and let operation finish
6.    Now go back and look at the source location: since the software allows only the "good" "short name" files to be copied (and because you "skipped" the "bad" "Long name" files so they are not copied or deleted) ...all that remains
in the source location are the "bad" "long name files" (because "good" ones were deleted from the source location after the "cut" operation...the bad ones stick out like a sore thumb.
7.   You will find ....all that remains in source folders are: the "bad" "too long" files; in this example the "bad" file is in level 5:
      C:/ 1 football / 2 teams /3 players /4 stats /5 injuriessidelineplayerstoolong
8.   select folder 5 injuriessidelineplayerstoolong (that's right...select folder, not file) gotta rename the folder first.
9. hit F2 rename folder..folder name highlighted...delete some of the letters in the folder name:
       like this:   5 injuriessidelineplayers ....you should delete 'toolong'....from the folder name
10. then go into folder 5....and do the same operation ...with the too long file name:
        hit F2 rename file....file name hightlighted...delete some of the letters
           like this: injuriessidelineplayers.....you should delete 'toolong' from the file name
11. Now..."cut and paste" the renamed file to the target backup folder.
The Error message will pop up again if you missed any "bad" files....for example, it will indicate "5 files too long" ....then repeat process 5 times until you fix all of them
12.    Finally, copy the target destination files back to the source location (when you are certain all source location file folder locations are empty)
Of course, this "makeshift" solution would not be necessary if MSFT would fix the problem...

Office Web Apps Attachment Preview Fails When Capital Letter in File Name Extension

It appears that when we send any attachments that contain a capital letter in the filename extension, and try previewing the attachment from within Outlook Web Access, the server returns an Internal Server Error 500 with the following response:
{"Body":{"ErrorCode":500,"FaultMessage":"The process failed to get the correct properties.","IsTransient":false,"StackTrace":"Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.ObjectNotFoundException: The process failed to get the correct properties. ---> Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionNotFound: MapiExceptionNotFound: Unable to get properties on object. (hr=0x8004010f, ec=-2147221233)\u000aDiagnostic context:\u000a Lid: 55847 EMSMDBPOOL.EcPoolSessionDoRpc called [length=657]\u000a Lid: 43559 EMSMDBPOOL.EcPoolSessionDoRpc returned [ec=0x0][length=238][latency=0]\u000a Lid: 52176 ClientVersion: 15.0.913.22\u000a Lid: 50032 ServerVersion: 15.0.913.6020\u000a Lid: 23226 --- ROP Parse Start ---\u000a Lid: 27962 ROP: ropOpenMessage [3]\u000a Lid: 17082 ROP Error: 0x8004010F\u000a Lid: 26977 \u000a Lid: 21921 StoreEc: 0x8004010F\u000a Lid: 27962 ROP: ropExtendedError [250]\u000a Lid: 1494 ---- Remote Context Beg ----\u000a Lid: 50428 \u000a Lid: 59416 StoreEc: 0x8004010F\u000a Lid: 38536 \u000a Lid: 10786 dwParam: 0x0 Msg: 15.00.0913.000:exchange-01\u000a Lid: 1750 ---- Remote Context End ----\u000a Lid: 27962 ROP: ropGetPropsSpecific [7]\u000a Lid: 17082 ROP Error: 0x4B9 \u000a Lid: 26465 \u000a Lid: 21921 StoreEc: 0x4B9 \u000a Lid: 31418 --- ROP Parse Done ---\u000a Lid: 22753 \u000a Lid: 21817 ROP Failure: 0x4B9 \u000a Lid: 20385 \u000a Lid: 28577 StoreEc: 0x8004010F\u000a Lid: 32001 \u000a Lid: 29953 StoreEc: 0x8004010F\u000a Lid: 32768 \u000a Lid: 33024 StoreEc: 0x8004010F\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionHelper.InternalThrowIfErrorOrWarning(String message, Int32 hresult, Boolean allowWarnings, Int32 ec, DiagnosticContext diagCtx, Exception innerException)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionHelper.ThrowIfError(String message, Int32 hresult, IExInterface iUnknown, Exception innerException)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Mapi.MapiProp.GetProps(ICollection`1 propTagsRequested)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.MapiPropertyBag.GetProperties(IList`1 propertyDefinitions)\u000d\u000a --- End of inner exception stack trace ---\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.MapiPropertyBag.GetProperties(IList`1 propertyDefinitions)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoreObjectPropertyBag.InternalLoad(ICollection`1 extraProperties)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoreObjectPropertyBag..ctor(StoreSession session, MapiProp mapiProp, ICollection`1 autoloadProperties, Boolean canSaveOrDisposeMapiProp)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoreObjectPropertyBag..ctor(StoreSession session, MapiProp mapiProp, ICollection`1 autoloadProperties)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.ItemBuilder.CoreItemBind(StoreSession session, StoreId storeId, MapiMessageCreator mapiMessageCreator, ItemBindOption itemBindOption, ICollection`1 propertiesToLoad, StoreObjectType& storeObjectType)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.ItemBuilder.ItemBind[T](StoreSession session, StoreId storeId, Schema expectedSchema, MapiMessageCreator mapiMessageCreator, ItemBindOption itemBindOption, ICollection`1 propertiesToLoad)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.Item.Bind(StoreSession session, StoreId storeId, ItemBindOption itemBindOption, ICollection`1 propsToReturn)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Core.ServiceCommandBase.GetXsoItem(StoreSession session, StoreId id, PropertyDefinition[] properties)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Core.Types.IdConverter.CorrectIdForObjectType(StoreSession session, StoreObjectId objectId, StoreObjectType deserializedObjectType, Item& cachedItem)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Core.Types.IdConverter.CreateStoreObjectId(StoreSession session, Byte[] storeObjectIdBytes, StoreObjectType objectType, IdProcessingInstruction idProcessingInstruction, BasicTypes expectedType, ConvertOption convertOption, Item& cachedItem)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Core.Types.IdConverter.CreateAppropriateStoreIdType(StoreSession session, IdHeaderInformation idHeaderInformation, String changeKey, ConvertOption convertOption, BasicTypes expectedType, Item& cachedItem)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Core.Types.IdConverter.ConvertId(CallContext callContext, IdHeaderInformation headerInformation, ConvertOption convertOption, BasicTypes expectedType, List`1 attachmentIds, String changeKey, Int32 hashCode, Boolean unifiedLogon, Item& cachedItem)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Core.Types.IdConverter.ConvertId(CallContext callContext, IdHeaderInformation headerInformation, ConvertOption convertOption, BasicTypes expectedType, List`1 attachmentIds, String changeKey, Int32 hashCode, Boolean unifiedLogon)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Core.Types.IdConverter.ConvertId(CallContext callContext, IdHeaderInformation headerInformation, ConvertOption convertOption, BasicTypes expectedType, List`1 attachmentIds, String changeKey, Int32 hashCode)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Core.Types.IdConverter.ConvertAttachmentIdToIdAndSessionReadOnly(String itemId)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa2.Server.Core.GetWacAttachmentInfo.GetIdAndSession(CallContext callContext, String ewsAttachmentId)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa2.Server.Core.GetWacAttachmentInfo.Execute(String ewsAttachmentId, Boolean isEdit, String draftId, CallContext callContext)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa2.Server.Core.GetWacIframeUrl.InternalExecute()\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Wcf.ServiceCommand`1.DetectDuplicatedCallOrExecute()\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Wcf.ServiceCommand`1.Execute()\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa2.Server.Core.OWAService.GetWacIframeUrl(String attachmentId)\u000d\u000a at SyncInvokeGetWacIframeUrl(Object , Object[] , Object[] )\u000d\u000a at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.SyncMethodInvoker.Invoke(Object instance, Object[] inputs, Object[]& outputs)\u000d\u000a at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperationRuntime.InvokeBegin(MessageRpc& rpc)\u000d\u000a at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage5(MessageRpc& rpc)\u000d\u000a at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ImmutableDispatchRuntime.ProcessMessage31(MessageRpc& rpc)\u000d\u000a at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.MessageRpc.Process(Boolean isOperationContextSet)"}}
This happens on the network call for:
https://exchange.mydomain.com/owa/[email protected]/service.svc?action=GetWacIframeUrl&ID=-2&AC=1
I have tried with varying attachment file names and it consistently only happens if there is a capital in the extension. For example:
.pdf - Works
.PDF - does not work
.Pdf - does not work
.pDf - does not work
It also seems to happen across document types, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, etc. So that doesn't seem to be dependent either.
Anyone run into this before or is there a KB article or a setting that I am missing somewhere that explains how to resolve this?Thanks!

By default, there are 8 bindings for DOCX. Do you see any other bindings available?
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