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blearyeye
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14 years ago

Cannot open file

I'm getting the attached error message when I open a TC project. Here's the background.



I developed the project on one machine (Vista). I wanted to copy it to another machine (Win 7) to run the tests there. There was a problem copying the file mentioned in the error message; apparently the file name was too large. I eventually reverted to xcopy to get things over. The file did show up. However, when I run TC on the Win 7 machine, I get the error message. On the Vista machine I don't.



Any suggestions? I want to use long file names as they're descriptive of tests and can be converted automatically into sentences (Test: [Global Protocol Setup Form] : Enabled Machine Type And Treatment Type Should Match Instances).

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  • blearyeye's avatar
    blearyeye
    Contributor
    14 years ago
    This begs a couple of questions.



    1. Why should TC permit creation of a path that's longer than 260 characters?



    2. Why can I run TC on a project that has a long path (greater than 260 chars) but cannot do so on a copy. (I did manage to make what I think was an exact copy on the Win 7 machine using xcopy.)
  • AlexeyKolosov's avatar
    AlexeyKolosov
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    14 years ago

    Hi Bill,





    The path on the original computer does not seem to exceed 260 symbols, while the path on the second computer differs and contains more than 260 symbols.