Software Deployment

IIRC, there is a limitation within Windows that paths can only be 254 characters in length so I guess the limit is 253 sub-folders, provided that each folder name is only one character long.

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Actually, I think the limit is driven by the requirement to accomodate 8.3 (short) folder names from the dark days of MS-DOS.

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You could always go R I G H T out on a limb and Google "windows folder depth". It'll catch on one day, this Google thing. Remember that we were there first.

Keep in mind that when you measure the length of a folder that you need to include the backslash ("\") as well.
I would say that if it's not 254 characters for the limit, that it's close enough.
I also believe that with NTFS (from Windows NT on), that there is no directory character limitation, but people usually adhere to the 250/254/255 character limit for backward compatibility with Windows 95/98.

Another thing to keep in mind, at least from the network perspective, if the path is longer than about 250 characters, you can find a point farther down inside the long path and hard map a network drive to that point; then the rest of the folder structure should then be visible.

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