| Title: | Windows NT |
| Notice: | See note 15.0 for HCL location |
| Moderator: | TARKIN::LIN .com::FOLEY |
| Created: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6086 |
| Total number of notes: | 31449 |
Hi, It seems that the spec of LFN under Windows 95 and Windows NT are different . When I create a filename with 255 characters in the root directory of an NTFS Disk I'm not able to copy that file into the \TEMP directory. This works with the same file on a Windows 95 computer. There is no difference between creating the file in explorer or out of WinWord 8.0 or with winfile.exe. The problem is (one more time) a customer who is copying file from Windows 95 to a share on an NTFS disk on the NT Server. After doing that, the server is not able to backup this file because the pathname is too long! Any ideas to work around this ? (don't say "don't use such long filenames"!) cheers, Michael [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 5918.1 | Don't use such long filenames! ;-) | BHAJEE::JAERVINEN | Ora, the Old Rural Amateur | Wed Apr 16 1997 07:32 | 6 |
It's the whole path that's max. 255 characters, not just the filename.
I don't think you should be able to copy a 255 character file to a
subdirectory anyway, because the path would get too long.
Maximum for the path itself is 246 characters under VFAT.
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