That didn't sound completely right, so I checked it out. You can have a path with ~32k characters actually. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28

That didn't sound completely right, so I checked it out. You can have a path with ~32k characters actually. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28VS.85%29.... I know that not all software supports those long file/path names, so yeah, you are probably in for some surprises.