[p4] Win XP : p4 sync : The filename or extension is too long.

[Ivey, William]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com]On Behalf Of David 
> Weintraub
> 
> 
> I've had the same argument with a few Microsoft consultants. They
> claim that NFSNT and the Windows libraries no longer have this
> limitation. That might technically be true, but Window's open file
> call still won't allow for more than 255 characters in the file/path
> name. Just go ahead and try to create an extra long file/path name and
> see what happens. This will happen whether you use Explorer, the
> MS-DOS command prompt, or even Cygwin's shell. It's not a limit of
> p4win or P4V, it's an OS limitation.

We hit this problem outside of Perforce over a year ago. Half our QA
people couldn't copy our images from the network and half could.

Turned out the successful ones had mapped a drive to the network share,
while the others used the \\machine\ style path. The extra six or
eight characters pushed the paths to some of the files out past the
limit.

-Wm