On Mar 11, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Sven E Olsson wrote: > > Hi list, > I wanted some code that do NOT work, yes it should NOT work... > > I think all of us know that create folderitems from absolute paths is > a bad thing..
I don't, though I usually use shell paths or file URLs. > And now i try to write some code that not working using absolute path > when i create a folderitem. > > ' create a folderitem from the absolute path > f = GetFolderItem(pathStr) > > The pathStr is created from d.absolutepath and is 266 bytes long .. > two folders have names about 50 bytes long. What is the limit? Should > it not be a filename longer than 32 bytes? ... or was it 64 or 256 ... > > My code is still working... > I need some help to get my code to NOT work... The limits depend on the OS. For Mac OS, the old limit was 31 characters. The new limit is 255 characters, I think. Charles Yeomans _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
