Limitations
Even in Windows 7, Explorer uses the ANSI API calls, so it is limited to operating on paths that have fewer than 260 (MAX_PATH in windef.h) characters. The limitation applies to some operations like copying, moving or deleting files (to the recycle bin), but not to simply accessing files by double-click. Other Microsoft file tools, like Robocopy, do not have this limitation.
Read more about this topic: File Explorer (Windows)
Famous quotes containing the word limitations:
“The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can’t be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality—a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
“The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)