Pei Gu's blog

VSSConverter and DOS 8.3 short names

Last week, I got a customer email about an VSSConverter error “ERROR: TF203013: The path $/XXXXX is in the DOS (8.3) short path format and is not supported. Enter a full path to the item and try again.” Today, I came across this problem again on this

About the blogger and blog

My name is Pei Gu, or 顾培 in Chinese. I’m a software developer working in Microsoft. Team Foundation Server is the product we are building. My main focus is on VSSConverter , Migration Toolkit , Migration tools , and possibly future tools that migrates