28 Mar
2012
28 Mar
'12
3:13 p.m.
On 28/03/2012 14:50, Beman Dawes wrote:
Windows maximum for a path is 32,767 Unicode characters in theory, but a path longer than 260 (I.E. MAX_PATH) requires special syntax so that's a practical limit for some uses.
FWIW "good" Windows applications should be able to read/use 32,767 character paths but only write 260 character paths. Unfortunate as it may be, a great many applications use the MAX_PATH macro has a hard upper limit so cannot read longer paths, additionally many of Windows built-in tools fail to handle long paths correctly - most significantly Explorer (making it difficult to deal with long paths correctly at all). Just thought it was worth saying. Iain