Re: Reply to Airman PD -- Windows Zip folders failures

From: Airman PD (airman_basic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 14:39:13 -0500

Yes, shorten the name. When copying files, windows does funny things
sometimes. Check here for a dated, but still good discussion of long
filenames:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/fat_Long.htm

George wrote:

> Thanks, Airman PD.
>
> When you say "rename", do you mean that I should rename the
> file or folder in such a way as to *shorten* the path? In
> other words, even though I got erroneous prompts for a
> password that didn't exist, do you think that the issue
> still has something to do with the length of the pathname?
> Or are you saying that simply renaming the file or folder
> -- even if the new name is the same length as the old one
> -- is doing something mysterious behind the scenes that
> eliminates the Password issue?
>
> Despite having done some research in books and online, I
> don't know what the limit is for the number of characters
> in a PATHname or the limit on the number of folder levels
> (if there is one), but I believe that the limit in XP on
> the FILEname itself is 260. The thing that puzzles me is
> that the entire PATH to one of the problem files is only
> about 166 characters long, including spaces. So, I can't
> figure out why Windows error messages yesterday told me
> that the "filename" (actually referring to the pathname in
> my case, I believe) was too long.
>

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