Bug 153375

Description Philippe Ombredanne 2006-08-09 22:48:52 EDT

Steps to reproduce:
create a simple project
for i=1 to (path is at least 250+ characters) 
   create a inside the last created dir with a long name (50 chars)
refresh the project
the last created folder "disappears" from the navigator
try do do anything of the created directory, and you get a popup "resource <blabla> is out of sync with the file system"

under the windows explorer, rename the first few root folder as "a" (ie a very short name)
repeat going down in the folder hierarchy four or five times
refesh the project again
the folders that were created reappear

So there is some weird interactions between the limitation of the Windows Api where there is some limitation ~250 chars when a non UTF api is used (if I recall) (for instance Windows Explorer is a good exmaple of that stupid limitation), and the Java capabilities (the core.filesystem uses Java mkdirs to create directories) which have no such limitations but instead use the full NTFS capabilities.


IMHO, there should be either :
- some way for a user not to get in that mess
- some way to handle that gracefully