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As stated.
I transfer movies to external HDD's for safe keeping, but on the odd occasion by doing so the file will not play, but instead sends an error message that makes no sense ("refer to Log", when there is no Log). Have transferred many movie files in MP4 format with no issue, but I have transferred three lately that for some reason crash after transferring.
Example:

Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file://?/E%3A/MOVIES%20%26%20TV%20SERIES/MOVIES%20-%20World%20%28Foreign%20Language%29/The%20Girl%20-%20COLLECTION/2.%20The%20Girl%20Who%20Played%20with%20Fire%20-%20EXTENDED%20%5BFlickan%20som%20lekte%20med%20elden%5D%20%282009%29/The%20Girl%20Who%20Played%20with%20Fire%20-%20EXTENDED%20%5BFlickan%20som%20lekte%20med%20elden%5D%20%282009%29/The%20Girl%20who%20Played%20with%20Fire%20-%20EXTENDED%20%5BFlickan%20som%20lekte%20med%20elden%5D%20%282009%29.mp4'. Check the log for details.

Any ideas?

Hello,

Here is a how you can get more logs:
run VLC normally, press Ctrl-M to bring the messages dialog, increase verbosity to 2, run the problematic file, and copy and paste the whole log here.

What is your OS ? What is your VLC version ?
The string of the file path from the drive letter is 451 characters long, I wonder if it is supported by both the OS and VLC.