Blog » Windows Vista (NTSF), "destination path too long"

Publication Date: Tuesday, November 04, 2008

I had working in a task where I had to follow some guidelines defined by a pattern found in my Configuration Plan document.

Who knows Configuration Management, should know that the way that you name your configuration items it's very important.

For the sake, as always, Windows Vista and its features drive me crazy!

I don't remember, really I do not! But when I was naming some items, for my surprise I got the following message!

This is the NTSF File system

I was just unable to follow the pattern because the super NTFS file system supports only 255 characters long as part of the path component (directory or filename)!

It means if I had just this resource (NTFS) to store my files, I'd have to change a rule in my Configuration Plan in order to be possible to let my itens to be stored in a specific folder!

Take a close look at the message that's displayed on the window!

I think that the best one would be the following:

I'm really sorry but the NTFS has some kind of limitations that don't let you do somethings. You cannot name your file as you wish. I don't care what you were going to do, but you will have to do it in another way.

This is a shame!

Tagged as:

• windows vista
• ntfs
• file systems

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