Max amount of punctuation marks when saving a picture in Win 10 with Iranview. .

[Albert000]

Hi there,


To save images, I use the free program IrfanView. Normally I could add up to 110 punctuation marks to a file without any problems and I immediately saved them in a subfolder on my hard disk.

But for some reason that is no longer possible, and the maximum has become 100 punctuation marks.
If I don't save the same image directly in the right folder but just somewhere on my C drive e.g. on the desktop then I can save it with 110 punctuation marks with Ifranview.

Strange, how is this possible?
I don't think there is a virus because I use a paid version of Norton.
Who has an answer?

Thank you.

[cwb3106]

I assume you're talking about the filename.

FWIW, I just save a JPG to the name: alpha()()$#$#@!()()$#$#@!()()$#$#@!()()$#$#@!()()$ #$#@!()()$#$#@!()()$#$#@!()()$#$#@!()()$#$#@!()()$ #$#@!()()$#$#@!()()$#$#@!

which is 126 characters long, 121 punctuation marks.

[IfThenElse]

If I don't save the same image directly in the right folder but just somewhere on my C drive e.g. on the desktop then I can save it with 110 punctuation marks with Ifranview.

You are probably hitting the MAX_PATH limit when you save your file with a long file name to a sub-folder.

See:

https://www.howtogeek.com/266621/how-to-make-windows-10-accept-file-paths-over-260-characters/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation