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I have a couple shows stored on a 2TB drive that I like to watch on my PC, but because all my USB ports are usually taken up and I don't trust my USB port hub (disconnects at random sometimes), I plugged it up to my brother's computer and accessed it as a shared Network Drive. This is the first time I've ever done something like this and for the most part it works well.

However, because one of my shows has like a hundred and something episodes (meaning it's a folder with 100+ files), I tend to mark my place by adding a bunch of "a"s to the end of the file I just watched, essentially bookmarking it so I know where to start next time. I receive an error message when I attempt this on the network drive. Earlier the message was something about access being read-only, this time it was:

MAKEUSEOF VIDEO OF THE DAY
SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT

"The drive that this file or folder is stored on does not allow long file names, or names containing blanks or any of the following characters: *bunch of characters I'm not using*".

All of the files have blank spaces in them and the names aren't that long (except for the episode I last watched, which I "aaaaaaa"d from my brother's computer since I couldn't rename it from mine).

Is there a possible workaround to this?

FIDELIS
2011-05-20 23:13:00
Hello, you can rename a file/folder on a network drive.  What you have to do is keep the names under the allowed number of letters/characters and avoid using the characters not allowed.  You are saying your files have blank spaces in them...so do not use blank spaces.  Give it a trial run by renaming your files without blank spaces and as long as they are under 16 characters they should be ok.    
Shivaprataprai
2011-05-20 11:56:00
yes , you can rewrite the folder name from another computer. For that you have to connect network between two computer .
James Bruce
2011-05-20 11:55:00
Could a problem with the data format - I'd try reformatting it as NTFS not FAT32, assuming your clients are all win7. If not, I assume it's a dodgy windows network problem - these kind of errors happen a lot in old windows network environments which are quite restricted.  Post us a little info about your home network and OSes and maybe we can narrow it down more.