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Re: and also Ahh sub folders Ahh, parents

I used to support an environment that had, amongst other astonishing stuff, a folder structure that looked something like this

Operations\NOC\

Operations\NOC\NOC OLC\NOC NEW DO NOT USE\NOC\

Operations\NOC 2012\

Guess which was 'live'

I also made the mistake of mapping a drive for end users that already had a 40 char folder name, so where they saw U:\ the server saw \\server\share\some folder name\some other folder name\accounts

The users then built out a folder structure that used the full 255 char limit from where they were mapping too. Of course when it came for me to do any work on that server I'd hit this huge chunk of files that windows was no longer able to deal with thanks to the fact the file names were too long.