On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:59 AM, Richard Mace <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have an issue where I am unable to delete a file where the path name is 
> longer than 256 characters.

You need to call the Unicode variant of the file APIs and add \\?\ to the start 
of the path in order to interact with paths longer than MAX_PATH.  See 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#maxpath for 
details.

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Craig Peterson
Scooter Software
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