Long Filename in VM

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by jazzizgreat, Aug 23, 2009.

  1. jazzizgreat

    jazzizgreat Member

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    I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup every night, but immediately after upgrading to 4.0 I started getting errors that indicate a too long filename in the VM.

    See CCC log below:
    05:00:16 cannot send long-named file "/Users/Andre/Documents/Parallels/Microsoft Windows XP.pvm/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/Microsoft Windows XP (Backup)/.DS_St" (51)

    Is there something wrong with my VM installation or is this long filemane for the VM normal for 4.0 (had no problems with 3.0) ?

    My work around at the moment is simply not to backup the VM, but would prefer to include it.

    Any suggestions ?
    André
     
  2. JackyF

    JackyF Bit poster

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    LongPathTool looks like repeated nested folders caused the path to grow too long.
     

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