Hello,
I’m emailling you because we are having some issues with Directory Opus and I was wondering if you could help us.
We have a user that uses DIrectory Opus as his filesystem explorer and Symantec PGP to encrypt some of his files.
The problem is that when he encrypts files with long paths (path + filename > 260 characters) the icon that indicates the file is encrypted (a blue lock) is not shown so he can’t locate the files that are encrypted (that icon can be seen using Windows explorer).
We'll look into whether we can avoid that, but note that parts of the Win32 and shell APIs themselves are limited to 260 characters (MAX_PATH) so you will inevitably run into problem when using such long paths. Icon overlays are probably the least to be worried about; paths that long will crash some software. (While they should not crash Opus, there is functionality in Opus which will fail gracefully with long paths, since it relies on Windows APIs which themselves fail with paths that long.)
Hi,
do you have any progress with this problem?
Thanks a lot
We'll update the thread when there's progress worth sharing. None so far.
But note the points above, those extremely long paths a very likely to cause other problems with other software, and the missing overlay icons may be very minor compared to other issues they cause, so reducing the path length is really the best option (even if we can work around whatever is breaking the overlays).