sweloop64

yes... and the second paragraph and a few lines below that.. For this reason the support for this should be an option in settings... Explorer in Windows 7 64bit has no problem entering folder-structures that have many hundreds(only tested upto 1020chars, cause my filemanager seem to not support longer paths) of total chars, max length per single directory is 255chars it seems... Explorer in Windows XP 32bit complain about not finding the files/folders.... I could not have any of the Explorer versions create such a folder-structure though... The structure I tested with was: d:\12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901 23456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 6789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890\123456789012345678 90123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 34567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456 7890123456789012345678901234567890\123456789012345678901234567890123456789 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123 45678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567 8901234567890\123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234 5678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890\123456789012345678901234567 89012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901 23456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890\12345678901234 56789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890\

Sure it does... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa...5).aspx#maxpath

If the path length of the file to be restored is longer then 260 chars("X:\<256char path+filename><NUL>") you get the error "The system cannot find the path specified". A better error message would be "The length of the target path+filename exceeds 256 chars". Or even better, add support(option in advanced settings maybe?) in Recuva to support creation of path length of 32000(dont remeber exact length) chars("\\?\X:\<32000char path+filename>"). The reason for the settings option is preferable since the very long path isn't widely supported.