Shortcut with EXE path > 64 chars 1

[Glenn9999]

I'm running into a problem (more generic one than a 8.1 one, though, but it's happening there), that I'm not seeing a solution to - perhaps just not putting the right things into the search engine...anyhow, how do you do a successful shortcut to an EXE that's greater than 64 characters (I found this limit out through testing)? What I get right now when the EXE path is > 64 characters is that it just does nothing...

Any help on what to do to solve this?

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[dilettante]

Shortcut? As in one of those .LNK files or something else?

"Path?" Are you talking about the simple name being > 64 chars? People have long paths all the time.

 

[linney]

Can you Rename the .exe to something else, something a bit shorter? Does it have to be 64 characters in name?

Can you use the 8.3 naming convention?


"Note: Although disabling 8.3 file name creation increases file performance under Windows, some applications (16-bit, 32-bit, or 64-bit) may not be able to find files and directories that have long file names."

How to disable 8.3 file name creation on NTFS partitions

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121007/en-au

 

[goombawaho]

Maybe your other post will prove fruitful.
Link

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[Glenn9999]

Got it figured out. Thanks.

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[goombawaho]

You should post HOW you figured it out for the benefit of others.

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[Glenn9999]

It's unrelated to 8.1 overall. After the responses I got, I figured I'd try a similar case with a different program and got it to work. Turns out (this was a shortcut to one of my programs), I was triggering a special case that I thought was fixed in one of my modules, but ended up with an old version of code somehow (guess I forgot to copy it to my library directory after I changed it). Basic result was the program was doing absolutely nothing and confusing me in the process - no window, no messages, nothing. Old version replaced, shortcut works now.

Again wasn't relevant, but you wanted to know.

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