Kontact/Win: problem accessing a shared folder with deep tree and long folder names

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress at lios-tech.com> [20090423 15:18]:
> Am 23.04.2009 15:03:00 schrieb(en) Torsten Krah:
> > Read the Filename Article at wikipedia.
> > 
> > Thats a known windows kernel restriction - nothing KDE special about  
> > it.
> 
> Hmm, MAX_PATH (as defined somewhere in mingw) is 260 which is longer  
> than 252, but probably not enough if ".directory" is appended.  Sorry,  
> I forgot that...
> 
> > I would say the solution is -> don't use a path which is that long -  
> > if you already got one, reorganize your stuff if you need windows  
> > access.
> 
> No, that's not a solution.  The folder names work with Outlook/Toltec  
> on Win, so users will not accept that they have to change the way they  
> work because Outlook is replaced by a superior software!
> 
> Probably the solution would be some kind of "flattened" tree on Win32,  
> with an extra look-up table translating the real (deep) IMAP paths  
> into, say, a MD5 hash which is then used as folder name.  In my special  
> case, it would already help if the ".directory" extension is shortened  
> to, say, '.#d', saving 42 (sic!) chars.  A more general bullet-proof  
> solution would be better, though.

Bonus points for avoiding reserved names. Others had this problem,
too, see "Technical details" in
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/fncacheRepoFormat

Regards,
Thomas Arendsen Hein

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