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Bug 323815

Summary:	Workspace: Cannot delete
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Chris Benjamin <chrisbenjy26>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT_ECLIPSE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen, Szymon.Brandys
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Chris Benjamin

2010-08-27 08:56:03 EDT

Build Identifier: 20090619-0625

I have a workspace problem. I created a workspace, then changed the location. Now I have an infinate amount of folders in the old work space and I cannot delete it because the pathname is too long. See the images:

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9052/inffolders.jpg

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8414/pathtoolong.jpg

Chris

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Szymon Brandys

2010-08-31 07:51:15 EDT

This is a Windows limitation. Eclipse allows to create longer paths than just MAX_PATH value. You may find many workarounds how to delete such paths on Windows, however the quicker one I have in mind is to delete it using Eclipse.

See what are limits for NTFS paths http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

Read also this report http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177665

Marking as NOT_ECLIPSE.