FileSeek RSS: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a FileSeek RSS: Long path handling Sat, 02 May 2026 10:05:29 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#11 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:55:45 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#11 FileSeek Sounds like a good plan, Pete. Done! :) ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#10 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:57:14 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#10 FileSeek Keith,
Maybe you need to lock this thread?
Pete ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#9 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:36:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#9 FileSeek Sure does! I've deleted his post, thanks Pete! ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#8 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:23:43 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#8 FileSeek
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This seems like a bit of advertising for a tool that is not free?
Pete ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#7 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:36:45 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#7 FileSeek For sure, we'll definitely look into it some more when we get a chance.

Thanks! ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#6 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:23:49 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#6 FileSeek Thanks for the time both of you.
Something to investigate though as it would improve the application?
Pete ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#5 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:21:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#5 FileSeek I'm not sure that all the underlying .NET functions support the UNC style long paths either. This would be something that we would need to investigate further. FileSeek relies on many file system API calls to work (including the IFilter calls), and I'm not sure all of them support >260 chars. ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#4 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:49:07 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#4 FileSeek Jon and Keith,
Why can't you code the applications logic to check for path length and switch to UNC style prefex - \\?\ if greater than 260?
Pete ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#3 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:41:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#3 FileSeek Just followed up with Jon and yeah, it's due to a limitation in the .NET API, so unfortunately we can't fix it :( ]]> RE: Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#2 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:13:13 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a#2 FileSeek I'll check with Jon, but I believe it's not something we can fix, due to the 260 character file path limit in Windows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#maxpath ]]> Long path handling https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:21:10 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/long-path-handling/?ID=9dfd78b9-6bd3-4a6a-a89c-ba068edd450a FileSeek Jon,
I often do searches on drives that act as profile servers. Folders on them often included AppData\Roaming. Often FileSeek has problems with files that are from web sites - and have extremely long file names\paths. FileSeek does not seem to be able to handle these. Is this a bug or design limitation that is known about and has plans to be fixed - or something else?
Pete ]]>