Hello!
Is there something I can crtrl+F for within Total Commander's log file, or some other setting I can activate to view a list of files in an operation that had different types of abnormalities, after the operation is finished? Be it that the moving/copying failed, or the hashes didn't match, or the file was over filename/path length character limit and it had to force the operation anyways, even if that forcing was successful?
I assume that if it doesn't outright give me an error pop up, everything went fine, but for my own sanity I'd like to be able to double check, and I do need to know which files were over the character limit, even if they were successfully moved/copied, so can compile a list of which files I need to try to shorten the names of in the future.
Somewhat lengthy contextual explanation of why I'm asking this
I have perhaps a weird set of questions here: I normally use Teracopy, which I am quite happy with, a few gripes aside: It's pretty intuitive and I greatly appreciate that as it copies or moves files around and verifies their hashes, it leaves a list of each individual file and it's status in terms of if the copy/move operation was successful, if the hash has been checked yet, if it matched or not, etc, which helps me feel safe/secure that everything was successfully copied or moved
The big issue I have, however, is that I have a lot of files that are over Window's normal filename/path length character limit: I do a lot of amateur archival stuff with niche archeology and history topics, and for a lack of a better option (if people know good metadata tagging or database tools, let me know!) I often have to stuff the century of creation, culture, country of origin, material, dimensions, etc in the filename and break Window's normal limit
Teracopy can't handle this well: Depending on the computer/teracopy installation i'm using and other variables I frankly have not been able to wrap my head around yet, Teracopy will either freeze, be unable to start the operation, or worst of all, will proceed with the move/copy operation but simply won't touch the over-the-limit files or will automatically rename them without notifying me that anything unusual happened.
Somebody suggested that Total Commander can copy over-the-limit files fine, and from my testing, it seems to indeed handle it well (there are some circumstances where even it can't force the operation through, I guess if the length is past an even greater threshold: I have noticed a second-limit past the normal one with some other software), but a major problem it has is that after copying or moving files, while it will ask me how to handle over-the-limit files and if it should be renamed or skipped or copied/moved anyways, there is otherwise no "feedback" on which files were or weren't copied/moved successfully or were over the limit or not?
The big issue I have, however, is that I have a lot of files that are over Window's normal filename/path length character limit: I do a lot of amateur archival stuff with niche archeology and history topics, and for a lack of a better option (if people know good metadata tagging or database tools, let me know!) I often have to stuff the century of creation, culture, country of origin, material, dimensions, etc in the filename and break Window's normal limit
Teracopy can't handle this well: Depending on the computer/teracopy installation i'm using and other variables I frankly have not been able to wrap my head around yet, Teracopy will either freeze, be unable to start the operation, or worst of all, will proceed with the move/copy operation but simply won't touch the over-the-limit files or will automatically rename them without notifying me that anything unusual happened.
Somebody suggested that Total Commander can copy over-the-limit files fine, and from my testing, it seems to indeed handle it well (there are some circumstances where even it can't force the operation through, I guess if the length is past an even greater threshold: I have noticed a second-limit past the normal one with some other software), but a major problem it has is that after copying or moving files, while it will ask me how to handle over-the-limit files and if it should be renamed or skipped or copied/moved anyways, there is otherwise no "feedback" on which files were or weren't copied/moved successfully or were over the limit or not?
I assume that if it doesn't outright give me an error pop up, everything went fine, but for my own sanity I'd like to be able to double check, and I do need to know which files were over the character limit, even if they were successfully moved/copied, so can compile a list of which files I need to try to shorten the names of in the future.
Statistics: Posted by MajoraZ — 2025-04-19, 23:58 UTC