Limits on sibfolders?

I am using Windows XP Home with the SP2 upgrade. I have recently discovered
that subfolders I created before the upgrade that are eight or more levels
below the My Documents folder are no longer accessable, that I can't open the
files in them and that some of the file names are now deemed to be too long.
Is this some built in limit in XP or has SP2 messed up something?

The path can only have 260 characters. A path is structured as follows:
drive letter, colon, backslash, components separated by backslashes, and a
null-terminating character. For example, the maximum path on the D drive is
D:\256 charsNUL.

File names in XP can have up to 255 characters.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Lazarus hunted and pecked:
I am using Windows XP Home with the SP2 upgrade. I have recently
discovered that subfolders I created before the upgrade that are
eight or more levels below the My Documents folder are no longer
accessable, that I can't open the files in them and that some of the
file names are now deemed to be too long. Is this some built in limit
in XP or has SP2 messed up something?

You might want to have a look at this.

[[This problem may occur if the system PATH environment variable is longer
than 1024 characters when the program is installed. ]]
[[After you install this hotfix or Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), the PATH
environment variable limit is increased to 2,048 characters.]]
Windows XP cannot find a program's executable files or DLL files
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;832978

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In ,
Lazarus hunted and pecked:
I am using Windows XP Home with the SP2 upgrade. I have recently
discovered that subfolders I created before the upgrade that are
eight or more levels below the My Documents folder are no longer
accessable, that I can't open the files in them and that some of the
file names are now deemed to be too long. Is this some built in limit
in XP or has SP2 messed up something?

Thanks Wes!!! Apparently I had exceeded the 260 limit on path length.
Moving the affected folders up in the hierarchy resolved the problem.

I'm impressed with this way of getting help. I really didn't expect to get
an answer and certainly not so quickly. Again, Thank You!

Lazarus

"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

The path can only have 260 characters. A path is structured as follows:
drive letter, colon, backslash, components separated by backslashes, and a
null-terminating character. For example, the maximum path on the D drive is
D:\256 charsNUL.

File names in XP can have up to 255 characters.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In ,
Lazarus hunted and pecked:
I am using Windows XP Home with the SP2 upgrade. I have recently
discovered that subfolders I created before the upgrade that are
eight or more levels below the My Documents folder are no longer
accessable, that I can't open the files in them and that some of the
file names are now deemed to be too long. Is this some built in limit
in XP or has SP2 messed up something?

Lazarus,

I manage to post correct answers once in a while. 8-)

Glad you got it worked out. Keep having fun! :-)

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In ,
Lazarus hunted and pecked:
Thanks Wes!!! Apparently I had exceeded the 260 limit on path
length. Moving the affected folders up in the hierarchy resolved the
problem.

I'm impressed with this way of getting help. I really didn't expect
to get an answer and certainly not so quickly. Again, Thank You!

Lazarus

"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

The path can only have 260 characters. A path is structured as
follows: drive letter, colon, backslash, components separated by
backslashes, and a null-terminating character. For example, the
maximum path on the D drive is D:\256 charsNUL.

File names in XP can have up to 255 characters.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In ,
Lazarus hunted and pecked:
I am using Windows XP Home with the SP2 upgrade. I have recently
discovered that subfolders I created before the upgrade that are
eight or more levels below the My Documents folder are no longer
accessable, that I can't open the files in them and that some of the
file names are now deemed to be too long. Is this some built in
limit in XP or has SP2 messed up something?