character limits BEFORE file extensions

[Docent]

How many characters may be placed before a file extension (e.g. .doc or
..docx, etc.) before you lose the file extension?
Thanks!

 

[Clifford Bass]

Hi,

Total path size is limited to 260 characters up through Windows XP. I
do not know if that has changed with Windows Vista. It may be an NTFS
limitation.

Clifford Bass

 

[Gina Whipp]

Docent,

I'm not sure what this has to do with Access but I am curious... Where are
you going to "lose" it to? The maximum length of a file name is 255 or 260
but you don't exactly lose the file extension. Perhaps reading this will
help...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename

For future questions you should probably post to the Windows newsgroup.

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