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September 25th, 2008
Stuart Thompson is a software architect living in Portland, Oregon. The purpose of this blog is to share ideas about web 2.0 as well as to promote the highest level of quality in software development. Commit to making a stronger, more productive internet.
I got the following message — from http://blogs.sftsrc.com/stuart/contact.aspx
Your message could not be sent, most likely due to a problem with the mail server.
So I’ll try submitting my text here instead. (Sorry)
Concerning –
http://blogs.sftsrc.com/stuart/archive/2008/06/24/93.aspx
Stuart, I had that same problem in winXp (today).
My filepath (including folder & file) was 141 characters in length.
I have embedded whitespace in my folder path, only because it has ‘Documents and Settings’ and ‘My Documents’.
I also took the same iso file (w/ its name intact) to another computer, mounted it from the Desktop (successfully) where my filepath length was 125 characters (and, the same whitespace applied).
I came back to my main computer, shortened the filename so that I was less than 128 characters overall, and it mounted fine!
So, I think that the total length of the folder path plus filename is an issue. I appreciated seeing your article about this kind of problem.
The error message sure doesn’t tell us much!
Thanks; Larry C