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Absolute Path Length
Name: Zaish Date: January 7, 2009 at 23:55:54 Pacific OS: Windows 2003 Standard CPU/Ram: 1gig Product: Dell / ANY Subcategory: General
Comment:
Does anyone know what longest length your path can be in 2003 server ? Ex: c:\windows\dos\1\2\3\4\5\6\etc
Name: paulsep Date: January 8, 2009 at 11:12:56 Pacific
Reply:
You can use up to 32767 characters for that. But keep in mind, that most backup programs do have problems with more than 255 characters.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: January 8, 2009 at 11:18:29 Pacific
Reply:
It's more of a program/application limitation as far as the number of characters. Excel for example limits the path to 256 characters if I remember correctly.
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Response Number 3
Name: wanderer Date: January 8, 2009 at 14:45:14 Pacific
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There is also the issue of consuming all of the directory pointers in the master file table which will result in no more folders files being able to be stored on the drive though there is space to do so.
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Response Number 4
Name: Zaish Date: January 9, 2009 at 11:57:36 Pacific
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Thanks for the replies and help on this.
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Response Number 5
Name: bilbus Date: January 9, 2009 at 14:09:55 Pacific
Reply:
255 is the max before you start having problems.
If your path is longer then 255 chars the security tab will be missing from the folders and files
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