In win9X and ME we where finally able to use 255/256.3 characters, now I am changing to win2k (or rather using both) and see that I “only” have 215 characters to name files.
Question:“Why?”
Has it something to do with the new ntfs5 file system?
When you upgrade to Win2000 it attempts to emulate many of the settings of the win9xME’s FAT32 file system. Part of that includes the ANSI file representations which limit a path to 255 characters. On NTFS systems, this maximum path length is 260 characters which includes the folder names and drive letter preceding the file name. If you use unicode file names, the upper limit is about 32k characters for each part of the path, i.e. “\32k characters\32k characters\32k characters.file”. What you’re seeing is probably something like this:
c:[20-char folder][20-char folder][215-char file name]
Either move your file to a higher directory, or use unicode file names.
the new filelenght came was described to me like this in the documentation that came with it (from a 3rd party not MS) and I am currently only using it on a new partition on my HD as a fresh start to get used to it. the 215 limit (for the full path afaik) is in the docs and was confirmed by an instructor I asked, but he couldnt give the reason.