File name length in Windows 7

[hedron]

I'm trying to convert a CD into ogg format and CDex won't save to my drive unless I reduce the length of a filename. I tried that only to find out that when I tried to rename it what it's supposed to be named that I could not fit the name of the song in the file name space. How do I get around this? Google says it's a limitation of the file system, but I think there's a way around it.

 

[jkr266]

Vista upped the file length limit to 260 characters, but this includes the full path iirc. Although some media programs limit the length even shorter, one of the apple players, i think its the podcast thing limits to 63.

 

[gimp]

right; it's not JUST the file name length, but also includes the length of the full path, also.

 

[keenan]

Shocking that this problem still exists, but indeed, the full path can't exceed 260 characters.