How To Open JPEG File Whose Name Or Extension Is Too Long?

I totally agree with you about not wishing to tackle 300 files – it would be crazy. Unfortunately it is near impossible to identify the particular file using command prompt – unless anyone else can think of some way. You could try it using full file names but my guess is that you will end up back with “access denied”. The hope was that using short file names would have circumvented this.

My view is to use a Linux Live CD because you will then have a fighting chance of identifying the particular file that has problems. It is not terribly difficult to do this and we can do a step-by-step if you wish. There are only two points where folk can stumble:

1. You have to burn the Live Linux CD onto the disk using “burn an image” feature (included with most burning software) – you don’t just put the download onto a CD. If push comes to shove you can temporarily install a small freebie to do this.

2. When using the CD you have to ensure that the first boot drive is your CD/DVD drive. It might be already but as often as not it is the main C drive. You therefore have to go into BIOS to change the boot order.

So, that’s about all I can suggest – let us know if you want to go that way.

Always pop back and let us know the outcome – thanks

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