Alternate partial solution
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 10:38 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Senour
(1 messages posted)
Okay,
After having read this thread and trying the stuff in it, I discovered what I consider
to be a partial solution (since it is a band-aid, IMHO).
Photoshop isn't installed on this machine, as one poster indicated (although Illustrator
is...is this possibly it?), and the only two file types are Word docs and PDFs.
What I did notice is that the directory in question was 8 levels deep. And in this
case, the directory in question is on a server, whereas this is a client machine.
So...what I did was mapped a new drive to the sixth-level directory on the server
(level 1)/(level 2).../(level 6), and it has worked quite well.
However, I don't really like it for two reasons:
1) It's too easy to run out of network drive letters doing this.
2) While it isolates the specific issue as being long directory paths, it does not
actually solve said issue other than to possibly rename the paths.
I guess the reason I'm making this post is to provide some more information, insight,
and a band-aid to the problem in the hopes that someone can take what I've done and
turn it into a solution.
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