This article discusses the maximum character path length supported by WinProp for Microsoft Windows and Linux.
On the Microsoft Windows platform, WinProp supports a maximum path length of 260 characters where the maximum path consists of a drive letter, colon, backslash, subfolders (separated by backslashes), name and a terminating null character.
For example:
C:\some_folder\name_of_fileNULL
where "NULL" is the invisible terminating null character for the current system codepage. For the above example, the path is 28 characters long.
On the Linux platform, WinProp supports a maximum path length of 400 characters.
If a path length exceeds the maximum character path length, the too-long path can be reduced in the following ways:
- Rename a long file name.
- Reduce the folder depth by moving the folder.
- Use UNC pathing in Microsoft Windows.
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