Too long file names

Paulef

Hi,
when trying to use SkyDrive as my cloud storage provider and BoxCryptor as a security layer, the created filenames were far too long with 248 characters. Adding some encrypted folder names before, Win7 gave up...
Any way to avoid that? The other filenames were all in a reasonable length. Would changing my password (not the length of the pw) result into an other random (and hopefully shorter) filename?

Paulef

see this post: http://forums.boxcryptor.com/topic/boxcryptor-crashes-when-creating-long-nested-folder-structure

Robert

Hi Paulef,

Changing your password would not solve the problem as the filename length would stay the same. We're aware of this problem, but it really has to be fixed by your cloud storage provider - see the information in the thread you've posted.

--Robert

iancottam

Robert:
am I right in thinking that as long as I use "do NOT encrypt filenames" this issue at least reduces to the fact that Dropbox et al do not use the Unicode interface on Windows for long filenames?
That is: Boxcryptor does not make things worse.

Thanks again for a great product and excellent service.
-Ian

Robert

Yes, it reduces the problem a little bit because encrypted filenames are slightly longer than plaintext ones (approx. 1.2 - 1.5x)

Boris

Hello AdaMmagen

with the new Beta 1.4 we restrict the path length to 260 by default. If too long pathes are created you will see a warning:

https://forums.boxcryptor.com/topic/boxcryptor-for-windows-v14-beta

* Modified: Path length is restricted to 260 characters by default again. Long path support can be enabled in the Advanced Options

Best regards
Boris

Archonous

Hi everyone!

I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. I'm having the same difficulty. Here's my situation:

I use both an OS X and Windows 7 system. My BC folders are synced using Google Drive. Google Drive constantly encounters errors and will not sync if I have BC folders in it (Windows). My filenames are encrypted. I suppose it has something to do with the character length as mentioned in the previous posts. I'm going to try the BC beta to see if that helps but my question is as follows: what about the OS X side of it? If I save a file in OS X will it then not sync to my Windows OS?

Regards.

iancottam

I wonder if Mr Vayn (aka . . .) is the owner/writer of Long Path Tool?
You see these posts in the Dropbox forum too

Steffanos

Since there have been many instances that users encounter problems in managing files that are too long, the need to develop a more systematic and efficient file managing software has finally come. The Long Path Tool is definitely a better path too long utility that can take care of error messages like path too long, filename too long and filename is too long. It can even unlock files that are locked by other system processes and can even scan your drives for path too long files longer than 255 characters and many more...

paul1149

I'm up against the same problem. If I set BC to accept long names, Skydrive finds them and flags an error. If I set BC to reject long names, it flags the error.

I need BC to ignore long names. I don't care so much if they're not copied, I just need these programs to work together.

paul1149

Ok, this page: https://boxcryptor.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/667245-what-does-the-%22path-is-too-long%22-error-mean-and-how-can-i-resolve-it- explains the problem pretty well. So I've disabled long file names in boxcryptor so that skydrive will work.

I think this will work, because BC is flagging me periodically on long file name errors. Hopefully that means it is ignoring the affected files, which will run interference for skydrive.

What would be nice would be to silence the BC long file errors. Any file so flagged is not important to me at this point.

Really, this is skydrive's problem, and I have a complaint in with them, but I would like to get this up and running.

paul1149

Cancel that. It seems the errors do get through to skydrive and crash it.

paul1149

I think I may have solved that with "hide notifications" under Win7.

flanco

would it be possible to implement in v.1 the same/similar file name encryption method (Chinese characters) as it is in v.2 in order to get rid of 'path too long'?

Robert

Hi flanco,

We will consider that as an option. By default it's not possible because one of the key features of Boxcryptor Classic (1.x) is the compatibility with the open source project EncFS which cannot use the new encoding for filename encryption... but for somebody who does not need this compatibility, it could be a good option.

Best regards,
Robert

flanco

Hi Robert,

I do not need the compatibility with EncFS. PS: I'm paid user...

Florian

Hi all,

Have you tried using Long Path Tool? It's the best fix you can get for this problem.

Please not that the Long Path Tool is NOT recommended by us. In fact it seems to be malware so thanks to all that bots flooding our forum but no thanks ;)

Regards,
Florian