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So at my workplace, my group is moving its sites from an old version of SharePoint to a shiny, new ShitePoint 2007 setup.

I am trying to copy over some files from one of the old sites to the new one, and I get this pleasant, informative error message:

Now, these files (hundreds of them) were generated by Javadoc, Doxygen, and ndoc. You can’t just change the file names. They are all interlinked. It will just break.

So the only thing I can do is to leave the files where they are, link to them from the new site, and hope that the old site stays around in read-only form until I’m no longer working here…

[UPDATE] The Google is your friend. Turns out this is not a SharePoint problem, it is a Windows problem. Windows XP can’t handle file paths longer than 255 characters. Solved the problem by using Subversion to export the files from my local drive to their destination (instead of trying to copy from one site to another).

N.B. This doesn’t mean that SharePoint doesn’t suck. It does suck, just not for this particular reason.