Hello,
I was converting and saving some images today and by coincidence I stumbled upon the filepath limit of Windows.
If your filepath exceeds 260 characters Windows will trim the name, won't allow you to enter more characters or show an error.
I noticed that IrfanView does nothing like that. It simply crashes.
If you process files in a batch and one file would exceed the limit when saved, IrfanView simply closes when reaching that file.
If you try to manually save such a file you get the Windows error that "IrfanView stopped working".
I know that this is a really rare case but it had me scatching my head for several minutes. Is it possible to add a warning/error message if the total filepath (with file extension) during batch-conversion or manual saving exceeds 260 characters?
I was converting and saving some images today and by coincidence I stumbled upon the filepath limit of Windows.
If your filepath exceeds 260 characters Windows will trim the name, won't allow you to enter more characters or show an error.
I noticed that IrfanView does nothing like that. It simply crashes.
If you process files in a batch and one file would exceed the limit when saved, IrfanView simply closes when reaching that file.
If you try to manually save such a file you get the Windows error that "IrfanView stopped working".
I know that this is a really rare case but it had me scatching my head for several minutes. Is it possible to add a warning/error message if the total filepath (with file extension) during batch-conversion or manual saving exceeds 260 characters?
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