topic Path Length Limitation Problem in Geoprocessing Questions

Path Length Limitation Problem

ThomasBurke2 — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:15:28 GMT

Every time I try to assign a projection to an image or reproject an image I get an error and the function fails. If I copy the files to a location with a short path name then the tools will work.

As an alternative we often go back to ARCGIS 9.2 for all of our georeferencing work because it can handel long path names that ARCGIS 10 can't.

Is there a way that I can make ARCGIS 10 access files with the same pathname length as ARCGIS 9, of do we just have to wait for ESRI to fix the problem. Copying the files back and forth from a dummy directory off the root is a real pain in the butt.

Re: Path Length Limitation Problem

RobertBonar — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:25:56 GMT

Every time I try to assign a projection to an image or reproject an image I get an error and the function fails. If I copy the files to a location with a short path name then the tools will work.

As an alternative we often go back to ARCGIS 9.2 for all of our georeferencing work because it can handel long path names that ARCGIS 10 can't.

Is there a way that I can make ARCGIS 10 access files with the same pathname length as ARCGIS 9, of do we just have to wait for ESRI to fix the problem. Copying the files back and forth from a dummy directory off the root is a real pain in the butt.

This is still a problem, with geoprocessing not able to handle long path names. Why can't this be fixed?

Re: Path Length Limitation Problem

CalebRivers — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:27:20 GMT

LongPathTool resolves issues caused by Windows path length limits.