I don't think there is any way to prevent Macromedia from
creating these folders and if you delete or change them, it=20
might not work properly. If the log entries bother you, start
ScanDisk, click "Advanced" and uncheck the box that refers
to DOS name length errors.

Ben

"Jay Eddins" wrote in message =
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I ran Scandisk a while ago with the automatically=20
fix erros box unchecked' This is the logfile from that=20
test'
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Microsoft ScanDisk for Windows
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NOTE: If you use an MS-DOS program to view this file, some=20
of the characters
may appear incorrectly. Use a Windows program such as=20
Notepad instead.
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Log file generated at 23:11 on 5/18/2004.
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ScanDisk used the following options:
Standard test
Check dates and times
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Drive Vf2us0n (C contained the following errors:
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The C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1
folder could not be opened in MS-DOS mode because its=20
complete short name
was longer than 66 characters.
Resolution: Ignore this error and continue
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.
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The C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1\SYS
folder could not be opened in MS-DOS mode because its=20
complete short name
was longer than 66 characters.
Resolution: Ignore this error and continue
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.
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The C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1\SYS\#TURNE~1.COM
folder could not be opened in MS-DOS mode because its=20
complete short name
was longer than 66 characters.
Resolution: Ignore this error and continue
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.
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The C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1\SYS\#LOCAL
folder could not be opened in MS-DOS mode because its=20
complete short name
was longer than 66 characters.
Resolution: Ignore this error and continue
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.
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The C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1\SYS\#FARTS.COM
folder could not be opened in MS-DOS mode because its=20
complete short name
was longer than 66 characters.
Resolution: Ignore this error and continue
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.
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The C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1\SYS\#PQUINN.COM
folder could not be opened in MS-DOS mode because its=20
complete short name
was longer than 66 characters.
Resolution: Ignore this error and continue
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.
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The C:\WINDOWS\APPLIC~1\MACROM~1\FLASHP~1
\MACROM~1.COM\SUPPORT\FLASHP~1\SYS\#SUPPO~1.UK
folder could not be opened in MS-DOS mode because its=20
complete short name
was longer than 66 characters.
Resolution: Ignore this error and continue
Results: Error was corrected as specified above.
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ScanDisk did not find any errors on this drive.
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As you can see it seem's all the errors were in MSDOS and=20
all related to Macromedia Flash Player'And this time=20
around I ignored them all.My question's are'are all these=20
files safe to simply delete and even if so is there a=20
better way to go about fixing these errors than deleting=20
the files in question and even another question is would I=20
have to delete them in MSDOS Mode since that's the mode=20
the errors effect?Also is there a way I can prevent=20
Macromedia Flash from making so many character's in it's=20
MSDOS file names? Thanks in advance for any input on this.