| Stephen Gran on 26 Oct 2005 21:11:01 -0000 |
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:34:21PM -0400, Doug Crompton said: > I know there are some on here who use windows at times. Here is one to > be very aware of. I have not seen any mention of it but I sure > experienced it. > > When creating nested, long filename directories there is a potential > for unexpected files loss. I had a tree about 7-10 deep with names > that were rather long at most levels. When attempting to manipulate > the files in a directory window at the bottom of the tree (left click > the filename to mark and right click to display the actions) the file > immediately disappeared from view. No warning no nothing. At first I > thought I had a virus or some other system problem but that is not the > case. This is a real windows bug. I was able to recreate it and it > seems that in general windows treatment of file paths over the 256 > character limit is handled very poorly. Just beware. I lost an > important file last night. In disbelief I spent a great deal of time > trying to fine it to no avail. When this problem happens it just > evaporates. I assume it is still really somewhere until overwritten > but it does not appear in any directory or any search. > > This was on WinXP media center 2005 edition. I believe I just saw a thread on another mailing lisst about cygwin experiencing similar behavior (you had to truncate the filename length). I assume it is the underlying OS that causes the problems for cygwin. Odd that 256 bytes is thought to be enough. Oh well, yet another reason ... -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Peace is much more precious than a | | steve@lobefin.net | piece of land... let there be no more | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | wars. -- Mohammed Anwar Sadat, 1918- | | | 1981 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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