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

From: George (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:33:12 -0700

Thanks for the clarification and the link.

Have a good day.

George
>-----Original Message-----
>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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