So, I am well aware of the 256 character limit when trying to copy or access files through windows explorer. When a user goes to copy a file folder down from the server, they may find out that mid-copy, the file path for some files is too long. This is all fine and dandy. The other day, I had a user on a windows 7 pro client who dragged and dropped a folder from a network share down to their desktop. The file copy completed successfully with no errors. The only problem was, there was roughly 40GB of data that should have been copied and only 3GB was.... and NO ERROR!!! I was able to repeat this again and again. I ended up using Robocopy to get the files down to his pc, but the fact that this user got no error message that his copy was incomplete is unacceptable.
Is this a known bug? Is there a fix for this?