Size of path in FileCopy function ? [Resolved]

[Kwai chang caine]

Hello at all

Are they a limit for the path for the instruction CopyFile ?
Because i have

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CopyFile(PathA+ PathB, PathC + PathB) 

And

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Len(PathA + PathB) = 164
Len(PathC + PathB) = 261

Apparently that work if the second parametre is "c:\Temp"

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CopyFile(PathA+ PathB, "C:\Temp\File.dll") 

Good day

[ts-soft]

The limit on windows (ASCII) is 260, including nullbyte!

[Kwai chang caine]

It's the reason why

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Len(PathC + PathB) = 261

Thanks a lot TsSoft

[IdeasVacuum]

You can test it against #MAX_PATH

[Kwai chang caine]

Yes i have forgotten this constant
Thanks too IdeasVacuum

[normeus]

I try to use UNC most of the time:

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pathc = "G:\movies\there are 254 characters minus one or two\for this path\"

should look like this:

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pathc = "\\?\G:\movies\there are 254 characters minus one or two\for this path\"

people get really wordy with their paths at my place and UNC could go up to 32k chars

Norm.

[IdeasVacuum]

...that would be long UNC or UNCW