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Not sure if this is a bug or not because ABC doesn't seem to support it either. But there is a set of files I'm trying to download and the person has some insanely long file names on some of them. uTorrent gives me an error and says the filenames are too long. I've even tried skipping the longer files but I still get that message.

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Unsure how related this is to this thread but here goes...

If a torrent has a really long file name and utorrent is set not to ask for a download path/folder, then it will get confussed when it trys to write to the path like

:\downloads\this_file_name_is_so_long_that_it_doesnt_exisit_on_windows.

sorry for the slightly vague bug report .... first day using utorrent, so far very impressed, thanx

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There was that really odd \\?\<rest of real path here> thing. It doesnt work for browsing etc ( \\?\d:\ fails) but it does seem to work for exact files and even goes beyond the normal 260 chars max. pathname limit. ( i.e. \\?\d:\really\really\really\really\really\really\long\file\name\here.txt works ).

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