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I use the Everything search program a lot. The CoveFS filesystem doesn't support USN Journals and so Everything cannot auto-monitor the Pool drive, but that's not a problem because I can set Everything to monitor the member drives instead.

 

The only (fairly trivial) problem is that the PoolPart folder names are very long and take up the full "Path" column in the match set.

 

Does it really need to have a huge guid in the name? And can it be changed (by the customer) to use something simpler/shorter? I think I can be trusted to come up with something unique for each drive....

 

Great product by the way. Couldn't believe the price for something so comprehensive. A game changer over the crappy LVM of Windows XP/Vista/7.

 

Many thanks.

 

Steve.

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Please don't change the folder names. In part, that is how we identify each volume in the pool. Altering it can be catastrophic.

 

And the reason that the folder names are so long is that we use GUID's for identifying the pool parts. For the most part, these are very unique and the chances of a duplicate is next to none.

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Hi there!

Sorry for digging this old thread from the grave, but is there any way to shorten the long poolpart-section of the filepath?

Eg:  F:\PoolPart.ede0c508-68c2-4d0d-88cc-336faab5e17b\AUDIO\OST-Movies & Series\Star Trek TNG\TNG - The Ron Jones Project (14 CD Set) (2010)\CD12\23 - The Nth Degree (M21)  Mr. Fix (M22)  New Man (M23AltA)  Nice Try (M24AltA)  Y Ask Y (M25) Advanced (M26)  What to Do (M31).mp3

I know this is a really long path, but PoolPart.ede0c508-68c2-4d0d-88cc-336faab5e17b alone is 45 chars long..

I dont mind shortening the filenames of the mp3s, but than i have also to redo the .md5 file & the playlists. (Also i should have to change the tags in the mp3s, but that would be too much.)

Isnt there a way to shorten the long ede0c508-68c2-4d0d-88cc-336faab5e17b?  Maybe a crosssum, a md5 or something similar?

Or maybe change the PoolPart. to PP.? This alone would help a bit. :)

Anyways, I like Drivepool a LOT, its just a scrawny, streamlined and efficient software, cudos!

Regards .. Sandrum

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No.

 

The "ede0c508-68c2-4d0d-88cc-336faab5e17b" is a string called a "GUID".  This ia unique identifier for the disk in question, and is referenced "all over the place" for he pool.

 

As for the PoolPart part, shortening the path by 6 characters isn't going to solve the problem here.....  

 

The problem being how the files are addressed.  If the software is using the old Win32 API, it will have a 260 character limit (which is what I'm guessing you're hitting).  But if the program is using the UNC path instead, the limit is ....32,768.  IIRC.

 

Unfortunately, Windows generally uses this limit.  However, there is a "hack" to enable long file name support in Windows 10. 

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-10/enable-long-file-name-support-windows-10

 

 

 

And to clarify, the pool itself and the service use the UNC path, so should have no issues with addressing very long paths.

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