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PGomersall
229 discussion posts
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
Aug 18, 2011  • #1
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
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
Aug 19, 2011 (modified Aug 19, 2011)  • #2
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Just followed up with Jon and yeah, it's due to a limitation in the .NET API, so unfortunately we can't fix it :(
Aug 19, 2011  • #3
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PGomersall
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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
Aug 19, 2011  • #4
Jon Tackabury (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
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.
Aug 19, 2011  • #5
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PGomersall
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Thanks for the time both of you.
Something to investigate though as it would improve the application?
Pete
Aug 19, 2011  • #6
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
For sure, we'll definitely look into it some more when we get a chance.

Thanks!
Aug 19, 2011  • #7
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PGomersall
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This seems like a bit of advertising for a tool that is not free?
Pete
Feb 29, 2012 (modified Feb 29, 2012)  • #8
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Sure does! I've deleted his post, thanks Pete!
Feb 29, 2012  • #9
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PGomersall
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Keith,
Maybe you need to lock this thread?
Pete
Nov 5, 2013  • #10
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Sounds like a good plan, Pete. Done! :)
Nov 6, 2013  • #11
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