On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt, have you ever had to deal with teachers and writers? They seem to > love very long folder and file names, at least mine do.
A common cause of that here is the Internet Explorer "Favorites" system. Since every bookmark is also an on-disk file, and MSIE uses the page title as the favorite name, you can easily get file names of over one hundred characters. Combine that with the user creating a few levels of folders to organize his or her bookmarks. Combine that with roaming profiles on a DFS UNC path. Suddenly, 1024 characters isn't enough for everybody. For us, it gets reported quickly, because it hits a fixed buffer length limit in the user profile sync code, causing the user profile to fail to load. The user gets logged on with a temporary profile, and reports all their files are gone. The error messages indicated in the logs are vague and misleading, but the ginormous pathname is a big hint. (Come to think of it, this hasn't happened in a while. Maybe Microsoft fixed it at some point.) Windows Explorer also fell apart trying to manage the files, but I was able to work around that by moving a containing folder (further up the directory tree) up to a higher level, thus shortening the overall path length. Then I could go in and clean things up. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
