>>>Having a nonexistent directory in the path can make a system really sloooooow.
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>>Ooops !
>>That's true, specially with Vista and Seven.
>>Does that fit to your case Jon ?
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>If you "trip over" the 254 character per line limit and the last directory name is cut off, you will also end up with a nonexistent directory name.

My path is 382 bytes long. What limit?