Fill a Server

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Dec 15 11:52:40 EST 2004


<bob_smith_17280 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Also, my first attempt at this did a recursive copy creating subdirs in
> dirs as it copied. It would crash everytime it went 85 subdirs deep.
> This is an NTFS filesystem. Would this limitation be in the filesystem
> or Python?

see the "Max File Name Length" on this page (random google link)
for an explanation:

    http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

(assuming that "crash" meant "raise an exception", that is)

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