TC crashing with too long paths, created by Shift+F6

[y]

Short description:
Folder renaming does not checking the full path length – so, I cannot create the forbidden path by F7, but I can create it by Shift+F6, and crash the TC.

What we need:
I think, TC should prevent the directory renaming (by Shift+F6) if new path exceeds more than 255 characters.

How I did it:
I've create the very long folder on hard drive.

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D:\0123456789\01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789\01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789\01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789\01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789\01234567890123456789\

In this folder, I try to create the "01234567890123456789" subfolder - Total says "Folder is not created". It is right and clear for me - path is longer than 255 bytes. So, I create the subfolder named "1", and then I rename it to "01234567890123456789". As a result, I have successfully create the forbidden path, with the name exceed 255 bytes.

I can't enter to this folder via Total (just nothing happened).
Windows Explorer says : "To long path name"

I cannot delete this path - Total say "Stack overflow" and closes (crash down).

To delete this path, I go up to the root, and rename the root folder "0123456789" to "1" - full path shrinks, become valid, and I successfully delete this branch.

Disk D: is NTFS formatted, no compression, indexing allowed. OS is Win2000 Pro SP4.

[Sheepdog]

You can assign the root folder with subst to a drive letter, e.g.

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subst y: "d:\0123456789\01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789\
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789\
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789\
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789\
01234567890123456789"

Then you could assign all folders in this folder by switching to drive Y:\.

sheepdog

[icfu]

Please a line break in that code, you are destroying the page layout.

I can reproduce the rename issue with too long path but not the crash, what version are you using on what operating system?

Icfu

[majkinetor]

There is MAX_PATH constant in Windows

[y]

Disk D: is NTFS formatted, no compression, indexing allowed. OS is Win2000 Pro SP4.

I'm using the TC 6.50 Trial.

Program crashes when I tryied to delete the "too long folder", created with Shift+F6.

Image: http://www.qunom.com/store/total_crash.gif (14 KB)

[Sheepdog]

Please try to update to current Version 6.53.

BTW ther is no limitation for the trial version except the 1-2-3 nag screen at start.

sheepdog