“Cannot access folder because the path is too long or deep”

"File creation error - The semaphore timeout period has expired"

Bad hard drive related case

1. We receive the following error message: “Cannot access folder because the path is too long or deep” when accessing a local drive”. Found out that the HDDs donot have bad sectors on them.

2. One thing I have noticed is that I would get the path too deep when copying files to new jumpdrives, maxtor 250gb USB drives. I formatted the drive using NTFS and all problems went away.

3. I usually get it if I try to copy to My Documents folder. If I copy direct to other folders of that drive then it works fine. Running Error-checking fixed the problem.

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“Cannot access folder because the path is too long or deep”
"File creation error - The semaphore timeout period has expired"

1. OS or software related case

2. Bad cable or connection related case
3. Bad hard drive related case
4. NIC driver related case

5. Hardware setting related case

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