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Long File Name Lost After Using Send To Command with WordPad

Article ID: 171857

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006

Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q171857

SYMPTOMS

If you add WordPad to the Send To menu, and then use the WordPad command on the Send To menu to activate a file with a long file name, the file's 8.3 alias is displayed in the title bar of the WordPad window. If you then use WordPad to save the file to a different location, the file's long file name is lost.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, save the file to the same location instead of saving it to a different location. When you save the file to the same location, the long file name is not lost. After you save the file, you can use My Computer or Windows Explorer to copy or move the file to a different location.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the WordPad tool included with the Windows versions listed above. We are researching this problem and will post new information in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about using and modifying the Send To command, view the "Copying a file to a floppy disk" or "Quickly sending files to another place" topic in Windows 95 Help, or see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

141017 How to Add Items to the "Send To" List

Additional query words: lost

Keywords: KB171857