I support this BIG TIME!. I've been put in trouble by this many times.... Fles that I renamed were so long that Windows Explorer could not deal with them anymore.
BTW: The limiting factor is not as much NTFS (Which does have it's limits of course...), but Windows Explorer which has a SHORTER limit than NTFS... Why MS hasn't fixed this is beyond me....
...Michel
I have not observed this particular Windows Explorer problem, but I do know you can easily use Explorer to put the file system into an illegal state. For example, if you have a path that is near the max limit on length, Explorer will happily let you drag another long folder into it. Suddenly it is impossible to delete or change any of the files within the folder. The only way I have found out of this mess is to rename a higher level folder to a shorter length such that the total max length is no longer violated.
This might suggest that my proposal is difficult to implement, but I was hoping JRiver could find a way.