Please limit file name length to something reasonable

[ChristianS2558]

I'm not sure what the upper end is on filename length in AppColl, but it would solve a lot of headaches if it could be limited to something reasonable. When files from AppColl are downloaded, there are often files that can't be extracted because the resulting path length exceeds the file system limitations of Windows.

For example, I just had to deal with a ZIP file download from AppColl in which an email had a filename that was 216 characters long. When coupled with the root folder and email path, the entire path length was 260 characters in length--when I tried to unzip in a temp folder, that threw it over the limit. I could unzip it into root drive, but I'd still have to then go find any file with a filename longer than the difference between 260 characters and the folder I ultimately intend to copy it to and then rename those files to something below that limit. It makes it very time-consuming to deal with moving files into our local file system, e.g., with transfers of matters.

Or maybe provide a way of letting users specify a max filename length for ZIP file creation and then renaming the files in the ZIP file so as to not exceed that specified filename length. That would probably be the lowest-impact way of addressing this. The source files in AppColl would have filenames that remain unchanged in this approach.

[gregg_appcoll]

Hi Christian - we will work on alleviating this by doing some truncation. We will keep you in the loop.