Error: The file name(s) would be too long...

stevebower wrote:
Ah - might be a clue. An example is: G:\Cadbury\CSMS\Manufacturing Best Practice\CSMS Core Materials 06.07\French\Learning Maps\CS Key 1\Original InDesign\Safety_First\__MACOSX\Safety First\Hazard Classification 2 Folder\Links\._fr_Page 17 - Employee safety Concern Sheet [Converted].ai

That's 249 characters. You wouldn't have to copy it too far deep onto the NAS to exceed the 255 character limit.

stevebower wrote:
so its a pesky Mac resource fork & maybe system doesn't like the dodgy filenames + it hits the character limit ?

it's a Windows/CIFS limitation.

stevebower wrote:
Why though the problem with it on NAS but not NTFS (I guess the NAS should be OK on MAC network?)

There is a 255 character limit for filenames for Windows, I think. With a filename of 249 characters in length that doesn't really leave any room for the network part of the address you are copying to. With e.g. \\ip.address.of.nas\sharename alone in front of the rest you're going to break the 255 character limit. One solution would be to rename the names of one or more of those folders or the file itself, to make them a little shorter. Another would be to move the file into a location where the path isn't so long.

Btw the NAS runs heavily customised Debian Linux.