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Re: Too long file paths. Should I really care?



1024 bytes. File names in OS X are limited to 255 UTF-16 characters, IIRC. These can be much longer when converted to UTF-8.

Ack, at 9/13/05, ward mcfarland said:

At 16:32 +0100 9/13/05, Matt Gough wrote:

Whilst testing my app's ability to cope with documents that cause CFURLCreateFromFSRef to fail due to path length restrictions I thought I'd see how other stuff in the system copes with such files.

How long is the maximum path length?

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