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USB Transfer Problem. Help!

Hi all, can anyone sort this -
When i connect via usb i choose 'disk drive' to transfer files/music etc to the phone. Everty time i try to transfer anything it says on the PC (windows xp) 'cannot copy xxxx - the path is too deep'
Has anyone else had any problems or does anyone have any ideas? Thanks

My first reaction is to say that wherever you're trying to copy from or too has a long pathname. Are you trying to copy individual files or whole folders, and where are you trying to copy from/to (e.g. My Documents)?

Dark Fire said:
My first reaction is to say that wherever you're trying to copy from or too has a long pathname. Are you trying to copy individual files or whole folders, and where are you trying to copy from/to (e.g. My Documents)?
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It doesn't matter how long the filename is it still says it. I've tries individual files and full folders but still the same. And i've tried copying from/to all sorts of different places but still no joy???

Hmmm. Maybe the way that Windows is transferring files is malfunctioning. This is definitely an advanced problem, which requires an expert.
*Waits for expert*

First of all, try another USB port. If that doesn't work, try this, in order. stop after the diamond works:
1- uninstall/reinstall activesync, then try accessing files with it.
2- Stop the Diamond usb drive by clicking the safely remove device icon. Then plug it again.
3- Uninstall all USB Root hub in your windows device manager, then reboot computer.
4- Hard Reset device.
5- Reinstall Windows
6- Return Device.

Can you try moving a file name with 8 chacters or less from your c:\ to the phone? Eg c:\song.mp3 to your phone
Also, what OS are you using? What file system does the phone 'disk' show up as in windows?

someone1234 said:
Can you try moving a file name with 8 chacters or less from your c:\ to the phone? Eg c:\song.mp3 to your phone
Also, what OS are you using? What file system does the phone 'disk' show up as in windows?
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It shows as fat32. ?

this simply means the files are under a folder tree with too deep or too long with characters. such as:
C:\My Documents and Settings\Andrew Loh\Documents\my structural folders\andrew loh\scanning\pdf\finanacial documents\banking stuff\hong kong bank\bank statement\date 2008-06-09\page 1\200806091211224412.pdf

Simpliest thing first.....take your diamond to another computer.....confirm if it's computer problem or diamond problem

andrewloh said:
this simply means the files are under a folder tree with too deep or too long with characters. such as:
C:\My Documents and Settings\Andrew Loh\Documents\my structural folders\andrew loh\scanning\pdf\finanacial documents\banking stuff\hong kong bank\bank statement\date 2008-06-09\page 1\200806091211224412.pdf
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Thats not the problem tho. I can't even transfer a file called pic1.jpg!

nokmond said:
Thats not the problem tho. I can't even transfer a file called pic1.jpg!
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It seems related to FAT system I guess.
Could you try to format the disk from PC when connected as DISK mode and try to copy file or folder again?
This might be helpful.

william_tai said:
It seems related to FAT system I guess.
Could you try to format the disk from PC when connected as DISK mode and try to copy file or folder again?
This might be helpful.
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Right - i've tried to transfer files from a different pc via 'disk mode' and it worked fine.
I can transfer stuff from mine via active sync but it takes ages transferring albums etc. It must be some setting on my computer causing the problem, although i don't have problems transferring things to sd cards etc. Any ideas?

For the love of God...
Hi All,
This seems like a very old problem but as far as I can tell, was never resolved or someone didn't share their solutions with the rest of us lovely newbies!
Unfortunately for me I am now having the same problem and after searching the forums it led me to this thread (along with two others that didn't have any difinitive answers either). When trying to copy anything that is within a folder from my comp (be it from a partitioned drive or the desktop of the root C: drive) I get the error "Cannot Copy ****ath is too deep".
After much trawling on the internet I found some third party software that should have solved the problem. No such luck , when using that I get a "semaphore timeout error". Next I try to direct extract from a .rar file to the internal memory and it tells me the reason it can't complete is that "the disk may be full".
As it stands now; I've formatted my phone's internal storage (and then had to transfer all programs one by one back over from my comp), enabled DMA transfer from the Device Manager in Windows XP and still no luck at all.
Could someone please shed some light on this as (as you could probably tell by the long winded post) I'm at my wit's end with this despite loving the phone in general!
Cheers in advance,
Night

I also have the same problem,
When i use activesync, big files like movies can only be put on the device itself, not the internal memory of 4g.
When i use the diskdrive option, the computer sees it als an usb storage, but files cannot be transferred, because of the "path is too deep" error.
in dutch it is called "pad is te lang", any options?
Also does someone know where to buy the official extended battery in Holland, because bol.com cannot deliver and other sites are way expensive.

Ok, just fixed it.
I turned off the activesync software in windows.
Connected the device to my usbconnector on the back of the pc (a 2.0 usbdrive)
Then it worked! Now 755 mb of .mp4 movie on the device...

i dont know if someone still got such a problem. I got it today and solved it with flashing an other rom on it from the Ruu.

nokmond said:
Hi all, can anyone sort this -
When i connect via usb i choose 'disk drive' to transfer files/music etc to the phone. Everty time i try to transfer anything it says on the PC (windows xp) 'cannot copy xxxx - the path is too deep'
Has anyone else had any problems or does anyone have any ideas? Thanks
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i had that problem too and nothing helped me...i fix that with easy solution----just try another usb port on your pc...that work for me

cifs module for 3.1.10-g52027f9

================================(updated 25/07/2012)
recompile new cifs.ko based on code from linux kernel 3.2.1 (with asynchronous read support).
there is 2 extra function needed in part of the kernel (which is not in the current 3.1.10 kernel).
however that doesn't stop it from working.
i am not sure under what conditions those 2 function will be called. when its being called, it might give error.
apart from that, initial test shows promising result. doubled the read speed.
please test.
do note. YMMV
new cifs.ko has a md5sum of
280303e69a92cd56f180956c838edbbd
in
cifs-async.zip
thanks.
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updated,
i have re-compile a new cifs.ko with modified larger rsize, hopefully will have better read performance,
give it a try.
note: it appears that your NFS server needs to have support as well. so check out if you can set it to a bigger send buffer to have a faster read speed.
the md5sum for the new cifs.ko is
7a235de92c855b2933402dd1c62610fe
in
cifs_rsize_128k.zip
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(require root to work).
i have created cifs module for the new 4.1.1 kernel for nexus 7
3.1.10-g52027f9
use this in conjunction with cifs manager
both
md4.ko and cifs.ko must be loaded to work.
as for the native language support (nls_utf8.ko), its down to yourself.
to use it,
under cifsmanager (when creating a new share)
set options "iocharset=utf8"
have fun streaming video!!!

qwerp_ said:
(require root to work).
i have created cifs module for the new 4.1.1 kernel for nexus 7
3.1.10-g52027f9
use this in conjunction with cifs manager
both
md4.ko and cifs.ko must be loaded to work.
as for the native language support (nls_utf8.ko), its down to yourself.
to use it,
under cifsmanager (when creating a new share)
set options "iocharset=utf8"
have fun streaming video!!!
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I guess if I have to ask I shouldn't do it, but but what does this do?

Cgc2 said:
I guess if I have to ask I shouldn't do it, but but what does this do?
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I may be wrong, but I believe it's to get CifsManager to mount your windows network shares automatically when rebooting your Nexus 7, so you don't have to mount a share manually every time.
Looking forward to trying this out when I get my Nexus 7. Thanks

Cgc2 said:
I guess if I have to ask I shouldn't do it, but but what does this do?
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this allow you to mount windows drive, or even network enabled storage.
so that your video player like dice player or vlc can stream/play the file as its local.
its similar to using //192.168.1.1 on windows.
Salty Wagyu said:
I may be wrong, but I believe it's to get CifsManager to mount your windows network shares automatically when rebooting your Nexus 7, so you don't have to mount a share manually every time.
Looking forward to trying this out when I get my Nexus 7. Thanks
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it doesn't mount automatically, but provide the interface to mount drive easily.

Wow, interesting and thanks for educating me on this use. However, why not use Airdroid and achieve similar results? Still learning, Thx folks.

We only have 6/15 GB to work with. Now, for me I can have 500GB and the apps will even index it for me just as if there were a folder with infinite amount of space on my sdcard
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

this is basically similar to
External Storage Device Compatibility Review
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766260
where instead of the "mounted" drive comes from your usbOTG cable reading from a external hardisk or card reader,
your mounted drive is a shared drive on your network. NAS drive, windows PC, linux, etc, anything that supports
Common Internet File System (CIFS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
you will need to know abit of linux/android system to properlly use this,
make sure that your "nexus 7" about page, under kernel version matches "3.1.10-g52027f9", meaning you will have to OTA to 4.1.1 JRO03D to be able to use this.

Mate this is exactly what I came looking for. Awesome.
I use cifs manager on all my android devices because ES file explorer insists on fully caching apks before installing them doubling the time to do things.
Been setting up the missus nexus and it was a bit hard to explain to her how to get to the smb movies/series in ES file explorer to stream stuff.
Installed this, mx player and MovieBrowser HD from market and she now only needs to go into MovieBrowser and she has all her movies/series with lovely artwork and synopsis,and just clicks on anything and it automatically plays in mx player.
Good job sir, I don't need a custom kernel just for cifs.

Forgive me for being naive, is this a CWM flashable zip?
if not, what folder do i need to place these modules?

Demented-Idiot said:
Forgive me for being naive, is this a CWM flashable zip?
if not, what folder do i need to place these modules?
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I created a folder in system/lib/ called modules and gave it permissions rwxr-xr-x
I extracted the 3 files into it and gave them each permissions rw-r--r--
Then install cifs manager from google play.
In cifs manager go to settings.
Click mount point prefix and type /storage/sdcard0/Shares
Tick on "load cifs module"
Tick on "Load via insmod"
Click path to cifs.ko and type /system/lib/modules/cifs.ko:/system/lib/modules/md4.ko:/system/lib/modules/nls_utf8.ko
Go back to main cifs manager page and add new share.
Under share path type "your ip of computer with shares on/sharename of folder on computer" eg. 192.168.0.6/Movies
Click under mount point and it will fill it in for you.
Under username put your username for PC that you log in with
Under password put the password that you log into your computer with.
Under options type ioch****t=utf8 (they have now banned a word that is within this word. It should be i o c h a r s e t without the spaces.)
Click save share.
Now when you click on the share name in cifs manager it should turn the light green to the right of it. If it doesn't you have done something wrong.
Now go to any file manager and go to your sdcard on tablet and there should be a "Shares" folder and inside should be the share you set up.
You can now use that as if it was a local directory. If you restart the tablet you will need to go into cifs manager again and click on the shares you want until they turn green.
HTH

thanks, very detailed response!

Demented-Idiot said:
thanks, very detailed response!
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You're welcome.
Any probs give me a shout. As long as you know how to make a share on PC the last instructions should sort you out.

Whenever I set "iocharset=utf8" in options, I get segmentation fault when trying to mount a share. If I remove that option, then it mounts fine. But filenames in non-English characters (Chinese in my case) will either become garbage or not show at all.
Any one got "iocharset=utf8" to work? I've verified that all three modules are loaded correctly by cifsmanager.

flumpster said:
Under share path type "your ip of computer with shares on/sharename of folder on computer" eg. 192.168.0.6/Movies
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Note for some incomprehensible reason CIFS manager requires a static IP address in the share specification.
(Just as described above) Do not assume hostnames will work here. They will not.
Thanks for the guide. Getting this feature turned up was high on my list.

One word of warning because I know a mate of mine did this by accident.
If you have a share set up on your computer with full read/write access and then wipe your SD card on android (or just delete the shares folder in your file manager) while the share is mounted in cifs manager then it will also delete the folder on your computer.
I don't have this worry because all my shares on computer are set up as read only to stop the kids accidentally deleting stuff.
Just a warning

Thanks for the instructions flumpster, helped a lot.
Might also advise on mounting outside of /sdcard, was seeing a lot of LAN traffic and Nexus 7 activity - turned out a number of apps were creating thumbnails and/or indexing items that was on my NAS drive. Poweramp, Gallery, QuickPic etc.

File Manager HD (Tablet) can play / view any type of file over SMB. Very simple.

Hemidroids said:
File Manager HD (Tablet) can play / view any type of file over SMB. Very simple.
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So can ES file explorer which we already mentioned but that is not what we want.
This makes the folder ( or folders ) appear local so you can add it into any other app directly (mx player, movie browser hd, gallery, play music, etc)
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Salty Wagyu said:
Thanks for the instructions flumpster, helped a lot.
Might also advise on mounting outside of /sdcard, was seeing a lot of LAN traffic and Nexus 7 activity - turned out a number of apps were creating thumbnails and/or indexing items that was on my NAS drive. Poweramp, Gallery, QuickPic etc.
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I have not tested this but have you tried putting a .nomedia file inside the "Shares" folder after it is first created? In theory it should stop them apps doing that.

@ OP
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. I don't even have my order yet (was merely hoping for CIFS support), but this is about the only thing that makes this 8GB tablet usable, IMO.
I will provide feedback once I get the tablet in hand and have some time to experiment with CIFS.

Just wondering how these mounts behave as the tablet is moved around in/out of WiFi coverage and between LANs.
Is everything well-behaved? Any gotchas I should be aware of?

[Q] View Windows Phone 8.1 System Files

Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to view the file system of a Windows Phone 8.1 device? I have a phone that is developer unlocked and would like to the file structure of the device or access files that are hidden away from the user. I can see the downloads, music, photos etc using the new Nokia/Microsoft Files app, but can not get into something like the windows phone equivelent to C:\Users\xxx\AppData.
I came across this post on the forums which is an xap file for allowing browsing over a network (converts phone to a webserver) but could not deploy to Win Phone 8.1 using the deployment tools due to the file having a missing manifest - I suspect it works for Win Phone 8 rather than 8.1.
Are there any native tools in the Visual Studio environment to browse the device on a dev unlocked device?
Many thanks,
Simon

IliosUK said:
Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to view the file system of a Windows Phone 8.1 device? I have a phone that is developer unlocked and would like to the file structure of the device or access files that are hidden away from the user. I can see the downloads, music, photos etc using the new Nokia/Microsoft Files app, but can not get into something like the windows phone equivelent to C:\Users\xxx\AppData.
I came across this post on the forums which is an xap file for allowing browsing over a network (converts phone to a webserver) but could not deploy to Win Phone 8.1 using the deployment tools due to the file having a missing manifest - I suspect it works for Win Phone 8 rather than 8.1.
Are there any native tools in the Visual Studio environment to browse the device on a dev unlocked device?
Many thanks,
Simon
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You can see some system files and registry keys via the WebServer XAP. *But, he is limited*

anaheiim said:
You can see some system files and registry keys via the WebServer XAP. *But, he is limited*
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Thanks anaheiim, I managed to sucessfully deploy the WebAccess_0_5_0.xap but not the AllCapabiliities version which is what I had tried before. I was hoping to be able to access the Win8 desktop equivelent to:-
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages
Do you happen to know if that is possible?
Many thanks,
Simon

IliosUK said:
Thanks anaheiim, I managed to sucessfully deploy the WebAccess_0_5_0.xap but not the AllCapabiliities version which is what I had tried before. I was hoping to be able to access the Win8 desktop equivelent to:-
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages
Do you happen to know if that is possible?
Many thanks,
Simon
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Yes, you can not deploy AllCap, because you are not Interop-Unlock, etc... only the ativ s allow.
You only have access to C:\Windows\... (It seems to me), that is why I said it was limited.

IliosUK said:
Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to view the file system of a Windows Phone 8.1 device? I have a phone that is developer unlocked and would like to the file structure of the device or access files that are hidden away from the user. I can see the downloads, music, photos etc using the new Nokia/Microsoft Files app, but can not get into something like the windows phone equivelent to C:\Users\xxx\AppData.
I came across this post on the forums which is an xap file for allowing browsing over a network (converts phone to a webserver) but could not deploy to Win Phone 8.1 using the deployment tools due to the file having a missing manifest - I suspect it works for Win Phone 8 rather than 8.1.
Are there any native tools in the Visual Studio environment to browse the device on a dev unlocked device?
Many thanks,
Simon
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You can also download any Nokia Lumia FFU and use the imgMount too to convert the ffu into a vhd file. Then you can just mount the vhd file on your PC and browse away!

compu829 said:
You can also download any Nokia Lumia FFU and use the imgMount too to convert the ffu into a vhd file. Then you can just mount the vhd file on your PC and browse away!
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It is not wrong.
Here for ffu tool http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2066903

Don't waste your efforts and time, just wait few days, I've bypassed the security, & I'll post details very soon.

Nice work, I appreciate it!
djamol said:
Don't waste your efforts and time, just wait few days, I've bypassed the security, & I'll post details very soon.
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Will it be available for Windows Phone 8.1 with the "interop/capability unlock windows 10" release? :fingers-crossed:

djamol said:
Don't waste your efforts and time, just wait few days, I've bypassed the security, & I'll post details very soon.
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"few days" and "few years" have very different meanings bud

gitgud said:
"few days" and "few years" have very different meanings bud
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Actually, this member did post his results, just not in this thread. No need to have a go at him either way. And please don't resurrect threads that are clearly dead just to troll. Thanks.

[Q] Accessing Windows Phone file system without limitations

Hallo,
when I connect my Windows Phone to the PC I can only access some folders like Music, Photo, etc... but I would like to access the entire file system of the phone, including operating system folders. How can I do that ? Suggestions ? Thanks

karerda said:
Hallo,
when I connect my Windows Phone to the PC I can only access some folders like Music, Photo, etc... but I would like to access the entire file system of the phone, including operating system folders. How can I do that ? Suggestions ? Thanks
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Hi,
What is your device?

anaheiim said:
Hi,
What is your device?
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I use a Nokia 909, but I guess that it's the same on all Windows Phones.

Microsoft won't allow full access to operating system folders to user or developer for security reason,thats why after long time we got at least file manager,may be there is chance in windows phone 10 with lot lot of work-ground!

karerda said:
I use a Nokia 909, but I guess that it's the same on all Windows Phones.
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If I asked you this question, is precisely that no, it is not the same thing from a device to another.
The devices that can integrate a Micro-SD card can be mod (registre) to mod MTP which allow view folders and files Sys.
Try this, but I don't know if that works on WP8.x OS.

karerda said:
Hallo,
when I connect my Windows Phone to the PC I can only access some folders like Music, Photo, etc... but I would like to access the entire file system of the phone, including operating system folders. How can I do that ? Suggestions ? Thanks
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If you download windows phone 10 tech preview there is a bug allowing you to access all system files.
http://wmpoweruser.com/how-to-browse-the-windows-10-mobile-file-system-for-fun-and-profit/

Can't see Internal Storage>DCIM>Camera from my PC

Any photographs that I take with the cameras on my N6 are placed in the directory Internal Storage>DCIM>Camera.
However, when I connect my phone to my PC, I cannot see this directory in Windows Explorer on my PC - all I can see is Nexus 6>Internal Storage>DCIM (which has a subdirectory .thumbnails in it).
It doesn't make any difference whether I have the phone set to "Use USB for File Transfers" or "Use USB for Photo transfer (PTP)".
However, if I use ES File Explorer Pro on my phone, then I can see the Camera subdirectory (and I can see the .JPG files within that directory). I can also use ES File Explorer to copy the .JPG files from the Camera directory into a new directory that I have created in Internal Storage. I can then see this new directory (and the copies of the .JPG files) in Windows Explorer on my PC.
Any suggestions as to how I can get my PC to see the Camera directory?
(Phone is a Nexus 6, rooted, running 6.0.1 MOB30D and Cataclysm. PC is running Windows 10).

boo in twrp recovery,connect phone to pc,mount internal storage and see whether you can see on pc or not.

Poojan Patel said:
boo in twrp recovery,connect phone to pc,mount internal storage and see whether you can see on pc or not.
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Thanks. Yes, that works - I didn't even need to mount the Internal Storage. I can see the Camera directory and copy files from it to my PC.
Not sure what that tells me, though.

I use this app Media.re.scan. Depending on how a file is saved the media journal may not be updated which makes certain things not see the new files namely MTP and PTP functions in android. Run that app and tell it to scan and it'll make all new files show up.

I have a Samsung np700z series running W10 with 2 USB 3.0 ports and a 2.0. I've always had trouble with the 3.0 ports on W7 W8 and ten. They work fine for anything else except cause the problem you describe. Using my 2.0 I don't have nearly as much trouble. I know the Samsung hardware and windows has this issue and it's never been resolved. Sometimes it takes a few plug unplugs and sometimes it doesn't recognize it right away. This problem has persisted from a note 2 to N6, from KitKat to N which leads me to believe it's not the phone or phone OS. Fwiw.
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