long+filenames+in+windows

I was trying to look for some solutions to problems with long filenames/filepaths in windows.

Here are a few potential solutions, but none of them look extremely good.

make a virtual drive with the subst command http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/87563-long-file-paths-solutions.html

use robocopy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

Actually, none of these solutions look very convenient. I did get "easy robocopy" to work, but then the files with the long filenames can't be reached.

Maybe I should put files in a "dated records" folder in a high up directory so that the filenames will not be too long. Then, for organizing, indexing, and quickly searching information I can have text information and links on my wiki. For some more significant files, I could also put those in some heirarchical location on the hard drive as well. I think this might be a fairly good solution to my problems for now. Another advantage of this method is that less thought would be required to place the files in a certain place in a heirarchy. Files could just be quickly created, and still quickly found later.

see also how to identify long filepath names