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No Short Name Conversion from HPFS to FAT File Systems

Article ID: 101717

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1

This article was previously published under Q101717

SUMMARY

If you try to move or copy an HPFS file or directory with a long name to a FAT partition, the following error message appears:

"File Manager cannot create directory <directory name>: The specified name is already used by a file."

This error message is generated because the HPFS file system maintains no short name for file or directory name conversion.

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Microsoft KB Archive/101717

No Short Name Conversion from HPFS to FAT File Systems

SUMMARY