File's name "is too long or contains strange characters" ...

When trying to back up files to my external HD, or copy to a CD, I invariably come across many that won't allow copying because of 'their name being too long or containing unacceptable symbols or characters'. Well, this applies to quite a few within a collection (e.g. 30 clippings within a folder), but unless I re-name, or shorten their names, they just won't be moved.
The trouble is that, while in the middle of transferring, the copying process stops at one particular item (I am not told which most of the time) and I'm stuck with searching for this single file in a whole bunch before being able to resume.
What can I possibly do to copy/burn without having to go through this aggravation?
Thanks for any help available!
Sigrid

Hello
It would take only less than a minute to create a new disk image initialized as HFS Plus and try to copy files in question into the mounted image. Why won't you try that?
If you still get the same error in copying your files to the newly created HFS Plus disk image, I suspect the internal volume may have some problem in its volume directory. If you don't get errors, I suspect the external volume may have some problem in its volume directory. In either case, I would check the volume in question by Disk Utility.
Just my thought
H
PS. HFS+ stands for Hierarchical File System Plus.
For more details, read this document.
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html

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