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Posted: **Wed Sep 04, 2013 4:05 pm**

Hello at all

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

CopyFile(PathA+ PathB, PathC + PathB)

And

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

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

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

Good day

Posted: **Wed Sep 04, 2013 4:41 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Sep 04, 2013 4:51 pm**

It's the reason why

Len(PathC + PathB) = 261

Thanks a lot TsSoft

Posted: **Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:10 pm**

You can test it against #MAX_PATH

Posted: **Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:52 pm**

Yes i have forgotten this constant

Thanks too IdeasVacuum

Posted: **Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:54 pm**

I try to use UNC most of the time:

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

should look like this:

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.

Posted: **Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:52 am**

...that would be long UNC or UNCW

Size of path in FileCopy function ? [Resolved]