This is a complex issue. The length of a filename is limited to 200 chars + extension.
There is no way to limit the length of path+filename since the path depends on where web2py is installed and it outside web2py control. Even we were to limit len(filename) to 1 character, this function may still fail if len(path+filename)>255. I say this is a major windows bug. Massimo On Aug 23, 5:11 am, Sw1 <swel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I posted some time ago a problem related to uploading a file with a > very long filename under window ( it crashes ). I have been able to > spot that the issue is in sql.py around line 2799( function store ). > So the pb is related to the python interpreter under win32 that > doesn't allow the creation of a file descriptor when the path+filename > is longer than 255 ( the ntfs filesystem does allow this but it seems > to be related to the way python handle it) > > I don't really know what to do here but may i suggest to change the > naming scheme so that generated filename is shorter ( something > containing only a uuid and not the encoded part of the filename). > > Cheers,
