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Re: ShellFileCopy API - Windows sometimes returns "File is too large for destination file system" error

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"techman41973" <techman41973@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>I have a program I wrote in Visual Basic that copies a file from one
> directory into another directory at a prescribed interval. The Visual
> Basic programs uses the ShellFileCopy API function
>  http://www.ex-designz.net/apidetail.asp?api_id=357
>  http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=499
>
> 99% of the time, the program works fine.
> However occasionally, I get a Windows error that pop's up that says
> "File is too large for the destination file system"
> This is extremely baffling as the size of the file that is being
> copied is under 1MB.
>
> Does anyone have any idea to what would be triggering this error in
> Windows 7?

Not enough information. For example, how much free space on the destination 
drive? How many characters in the path? Perhaps they exceed MAX_PATH, which 
is 260.

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ShellFileCopy API - Windows sometimes returns “File is too large for destination file system” error techman41973 <techman41973@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-06 12:25 -0800
  Re: ShellFileCopy API - Windows sometimes returns "File is too large for destination file system" error "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2011-12-06 17:06 -0500
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