Long File Names

[OZ KNOTT]

We are upgrading from V. 7 to V. 2003.
PT gives error Long Files names not supported on data drive.
Our server with Linux 5.2 does support LFN and so does our client with Win98.
Any ideas on this?

[Robert Walraven]

This is a probably a problem with Btrieve rather than Peachtree. The version of Btrieve that is used by Peachtree is V6.15, which has been obsolete for some time. I believe V6.15 may not know about LFN: Notice that when Peachtree creates a new company it always uses an 8-character name for the folder.

[OZ KNOTT]

Thanks, Robert.
Here is what fixed it:
Copy server data to local directory.
Install upgrade and convert.
Copy Local back to server.
Edit PCW100.INI ON LOCAL FOR CORRECT DATAPATH.
Thanks, again, Oz

[Robert Walraven]

Interesting. Thanks for the description of the fix. I'm not really sure why this worked, but glad it did.

[tbingham]

I had the a scenario similar to OZ, a Linux server (using SMB to provide a network disk space on a linux system - www.samba.org), wich I got working using Peachtree 2000 rel 8.0. When I upgrade the software to PT 2002 Multi user, rel 9.0, I got this same error that OZ is specifying.

Did some got a solutions for this one, I´m now losing file and always I have to restore data from my backup, wich on rel.8.0 I never got any error.

Thanks.


TB.