Is a window title limited to 94 characters?

4 Oct 2008 6:12 PM

Terry Pinnell

I have a folder open called

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects\Collage

and that is shown correctly in the Address box, as 127 characters.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s247/terrypin999/FolderTitleSize-1.jpg

But as you see, all that shows in the title is C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application
Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects

which is 94 characters.

I see the same for other folders with long paths. A common occurrence
for sub-folders of C:\Documents and Settings\ which uses 26 to sat
with!

I had one reply elsewhere from a user who couldn't reproduce the
problem, but it does seem consistent here on my PC (under XP Pro).
Anyone else able to try it please, and/or have any idea what may be
causing it?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

4 Oct 2008 6:41 PM

Big_Al

Terry Pinnell wrote:
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> I have a folder open called
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
> Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects\Collage
>
> and that is shown correctly in the Address box, as 127 characters.
>
> http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s247/terrypin999/FolderTitleSize-1.jpg
>
> But as you see, all that shows in the title is C:\Documents and
> Settings\All Users\Application
> Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects
>
> which is 94 characters.
>
> I see the same for other folders with long paths. A common occurrence
> for sub-folders of C:\Documents and Settings\ which uses 26 to sat
> with!
>
> I had one reply elsewhere from a user who couldn't reproduce the
> problem, but it does seem consistent here on my PC (under XP Pro).
> Anyone else able to try it please, and/or have any idea what may be
> causing it?
>

I just tried it too and got similar issue.
C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\Application
Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\Cache\Now is the time for all good men\To come to
the aid of their country
This folder (and yes I had to force a few folders) only shows up to the
g in good in the title but all of it in the address. You can count the
string, I'm lazy.
Win XP ME 2005. SP3.

4 Oct 2008 9:49 PM

Terry Pinnell

Big_Al <Bi***@md.com> wrote:

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>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>> I have a folder open called
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
>> Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects\Collage
>>
>> and that is shown correctly in the Address box, as 127 characters.
>>
>> http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s247/terrypin999/FolderTitleSize-1.jpg
>>
>> But as you see, all that shows in the title is C:\Documents and
>> Settings\All Users\Application
>> Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects
>>
>> which is 94 characters.
>>
>> I see the same for other folders with long paths. A common occurrence
>> for sub-folders of C:\Documents and Settings\ which uses 26 to sat
>> with!
>>
>> I had one reply elsewhere from a user who couldn't reproduce the
>> problem, but it does seem consistent here on my PC (under XP Pro).
>> Anyone else able to try it please, and/or have any idea what may be
>> causing it?
>>
>
>I just tried it too and got similar issue.
>C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\Application
>Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\Cache\Now is the time for all good men\To come to
>the aid of their country
>This folder (and yes I had to force a few folders) only shows up to the
>g in good in the title but all of it in the address. You can count the
>string, I'm lazy.
>Win XP ME 2005. SP3.

Thanks for checking it out. That's 95 characters. Looks like some
undocumented limitation in MS Windows.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

5 Oct 2008 2:11 AM

chuckcar

Terry Pinnell <terrypinDEL***@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in

news:c5pfe4l8k0vd973us2bo930itf3hef3mde@4ax.com:

> Big_Al <Bi***@md.com> wrote:
>
>>Terry Pinnell wrote:

>
> Thanks for checking it out. That's 95 characters. Looks like some
> undocumented limitation in MS Windows.
>

Oh, no. It's documented alright, you just have to *find* it in microsoft
technet. They recently decided to add their "web forums" and blogs to
technet and have then to remove these from the search. Means you get the
kernels with the gabfest. *Not* good.

In *dos* it's limited to 127. That can be shortened by the number of \'s
or characters before the first "\".

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121059

If you installed windows XP on a FAT32 file system, that would limit
*both* to 127. NTFS allows 255.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142982

Wanders a bit, but explains it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/148754

The above applies to windows 95. The problem was that *now* you can't
refine both to technet alone *and* the product (windows XP). Microsoft
have now ruined the last decent documentation source they had.

There's bound to be others. Try here. This is pruned of the gab:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-US/?query=filename%20length&r
efinement=60&ac=8

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