Is that too many characters for NTFS to deal with in a filename?


No. NTFS will handle 255 characters (your filename is only 198), but included in that 255 character limit is the entire directory path to the file as well as the filename.

So if your directory path (C:\"My_Music\MP3_Files\Williams,Mary_Lou" or whatever it is) is more than 57 characters long, then NTFS will choke on it.

tanstaafl.