http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ Discussion forum for FBackup users. en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:23:21 +0000 http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/cannot-delete-back-up#post-1977 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:00:59 +0000 sixfootstudio 1977@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Managed to find a solution...</p> <p><a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/35569/windows-how-to-delete-files-with-a-too-long-name" rel="nofollow">http://serverfault.com/questions/35569/windows-how-to-delete-files-with-a-too-long-name</a> </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/cannot-delete-back-up#post-1976 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:22:39 +0000 sixfootstudio 1976@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I am having the same problem as this. I have found that doing the above solves the problem but, since I have backed up over 100GB data, I am now painstakingly having to rename these folders one by one which is taking me too long!</p> <p>Is there another solution to this?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/cannot-delete-back-up#post-1268 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:21:27 +0000 Admin 1268@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I'm glad the problem is fixed. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/cannot-delete-back-up#post-1250 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:21:23 +0000 Egghead 1250@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the reply, looked at the logs and found the problem folder. I was backing up "My Documents" and within there I have folder which contain folders which contain folders, etc. They all have long names, but I found the exact folder name that was mentioned in the error window. So I just renamed it (made it way shorter) and then I was able to delete the folders.</p> <p>Case solved and experience to share with anyone else. Other than that, great back ups and working fine. Thanks again for the help. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/cannot-delete-back-up#post-1248 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:19:37 +0000 Admin 1248@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>It seems the folder path was near the maximum length allowed by Windows.<br /> Backing up that folder to another location created a longer path which exceeded the maximum length allowed by Windows.<br /> That is a Windows limitation and to solve the problem you need to rename as many folders as possible to a single character name. The path will be shorten and you will be able to delete that folder.</p> <p>To see what the problem was with the back up, please send us the first backup log from View->Job Logs->Open Log folder. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/cannot-delete-back-up#post-1245 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:11:04 +0000 Egghead 1245@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I downloaded the latest software. I set up my parameters and then did a back up. Worked fine, but a couple of issues.</p> <p>- When I went to the networked computer where the back up was "dumped" to, I checked the folders to see if the contents were there. My D drive was all there, but not my documents nor desktop files. What happened?</p> <p>- Well, after discovering this, I wanted to delete the entire folder and rerun the back up, but it does not allow me to delete the folders. It says "Cannot delete Microsoft-windows-terminalservices-appserver-licensing. The file name you specified is not valid or too long. Specify a different file name." So how do I delete this?</p> <p>Set up is mirror and I selected a whole drive and some folders under my profile. Let me know, thanks<br /> Steve </p>