I haven’t seen any compatibility problems with it, but just so you know, M$ has not enabled this by default… yet. I think WD needs to let users know of this problem and test it. A lot of folks may have to use the registry hack. I did the Group Policy on my Enterprise version of Windows 10. Finally, once the software has been removed, it is advisable that you should. The pop up message will appear as click on yes to uninstall. After selecting the software, click on the remove button to delete the software. Try out a few tutorials about this: Here’s one: Long paths Group Policy and here’s an even better one with some explanation: Enable NTFS or Win32 long paths policy to remove the 255-260 characters limit in Windows 10 Double click on the add/remove applet then select Long Path Tool from the list of the program which appear on your computer. I tried this and it worked without a reboot: But I found a simple solution for Windows 10 users. That absurd extra deep path makes already long paths exceed the 20-year-old and well-known 260 character limit for pathnames in Windows. Overall, Long Path Fixer is a solid program it is useful, and it’s free. G:\WD Backup.swstor\Admin\ZLJjNvXiMzDaZjUyNDkgZW\Volume Simply right-click on the icon in the System Tray menu, and choose Keep in Explorer Context Menu. Change to value from 0 to 1 and click OK. Find the LongPathsEnabled DWORD file and double click on it. the BAD program takes these already deep folders and makes them deeper, under my WD Passport drive. Paste the path for the file system folder.
A lot of old messages indicated that a portion of my User Profile might have had long, deep, directory structures. I am, unsure why I wasn’t notified that it was broken for many weeks.Īnyway, I tracked down the error. This is some hard to figure out backup software, I might add. I was not aware of my backups failing for a few MONTHS! Then when I needed an EXCEL file that I overwrote, it was unavailable in the backup. Here is a little hack for making WD backup to work when you are getting unknown errors.