file copy problem: filename too long

[Tom Cloyd]

I'm baffled by a problem which I'm having on my Lubuntu install [15.04] on
my Dell Inspiron which is NOT occurring on my HP Mini 110 netbook. The OS
installation on the HP netbook is identical to that on the Dell so far as I
know.

In trying to copy several large directories from a backup USB harddrive, I
get a refusal to copy on the Dell due to a number (several hundred) of
filenames' being too long.

I NEED to complete this directory copy. Can anyone advise me as to how to
resolve this problem?

Thanks!

Tom


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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give
birth to them,
but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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Tom Cloyd, MS MA LMHC (WA)
Psychotherapist (psychological trauma, dissociative disorders)
Spokane, Washington, U.S.A: (435) 272-3332
<< tc at tomcloyd.com >> (email)
<< TomCloyd.com >> (website)
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