One of our customers habitually use very long path names (several nested folders, with long names) and we routinely encounter "user education issues" in order to shorten the path to less than 260 characters.
Is there a technical solution available, can we flick some sort of switch in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 to say "yeah just ignore these historical problems, and make +260 character path name work".
P.S. I have read and been totally unedified by Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces
Best Answer
The methods are there, but until Microsoft re-codes the file-browser widget we're pretty much stuck with that old problem. It's sub-optimal, but that's just how it works.