>>>Just curious, why Space$(260) what I sent was almost identical but I use 255, can the path exceed 255?
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>>You may have as many problems with 255 than I could have with 260 characters.
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>>Normally, 255 is enough but you know with long filenames and never endig sub-folders included in sub-folders included in ... surely one can have a path longer than 255 (but I hope not with the Windows directory).
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>Better safe than sorry. :)

Not enough - the maximum length of a path is 261 characters.