On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Walt Hundleby <[email protected]> wrote: > We have had a lot of roaming profiles failing to load recently. In looking > at the event logs it appears the total path of some files is too long.
We've had that problem with files under "My Documents" on occasion. > ... how did you solve it (globally) ... AFAIK, you don't. Microsoft's stance is apparently that "255 characters ought to be enough for anybody". The MSKB is littered with issues related to MAX_PATH. NTFS and the NT kernel may be able to handle much longer paths, but most of Windows cannot. > ... I believe it started when we installed IE8 ... Are any of the paths in question obviously related to IE8? If so, you might be able to change IE to use shorter paths to work around the issue. What were the paths? When it happens for us we get an ID 1509 event from Userenv in the Application log, listing the path that causes things to explode. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
