topic Re: Problem with document previewer for documents with long file names (Alfresco running on Windows) in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311569#M264699 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Shortening the filename could be a solution indeed <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>However, the customer would like to keep using long file names, because of document naming conventions which are enforced by business policies.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 11 May 2015 11:35:50 GMT aabd 2015-05-11T11:35:50Z Problem with document previewer for documents with long file names (Alfresco running on Windows) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311567#M264697 Hi,We're currently running Alfresco Community 5.0d on Windows Server 2008 R2. When a user clicks on a Word document in Alfresco, the document previewer does not work. It displays the error "Cannot load PDF content". Everything else works, including downloading the document and editing it.We've narro Fri, 08 May 2015 13:55:47 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311567#M264697 aabd 2015-05-08T13:55:47Z Re: Problem with document previewer for documents with long file names (Alfresco running on Windows) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311568#M264698 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yeah……Shorten the name of the file.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 May 2015 16:03:22 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311568#M264698 eswbitto 2015-05-08T16:03:22Z Re: Problem with document previewer for documents with long file names (Alfresco running on Windows) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311569#M264699 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Shortening the filename could be a solution indeed <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN><BR /><SPAN>However, the customer would like to keep using long file names, because of document naming conventions which are enforced by business policies.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 11 May 2015 11:35:50 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311569#M264699 aabd 2015-05-11T11:35:50Z Re: Problem with document previewer for documents with long file names (Alfresco running on Windows) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311570#M264700 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>"We believe that the pdf document can't be generated successfully, because of the MAX_PATH length value in Windows (which has a static value of 260)"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I think this is definitely the cause.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Can you shorten the path by renaming folders, changing the temp file location, or even mapping it to a drive letter?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:51:53 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311570#M264700 tearalong 2015-06-02T07:51:53Z Re: Problem with document previewer for documents with long file names (Alfresco running on Windows) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311571#M264701 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is the root cause of this that the 256 character limit in URL?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:00:03 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311571#M264701 motionpotion 2015-07-21T22:00:03Z Re: Problem with document previewer for documents with long file names (Alfresco running on Windows) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311572#M264702 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Unfortunately we can't shorten the path ourselves, because Alfresco generates those temporary (sub)folders and tempfiles on its own. The only thing we can change is the base path, which is D:\Alfresco50d in our case. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We've created an issue in Alfresco's JIRA bugtracking system, please refer to </SPAN><A href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-21340" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-21340</A><SPAN> .</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:27:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311572#M264702 aabd 2015-07-24T09:27:00Z Re: Problem with document previewer for documents with long file names (Alfresco running on Windows) https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311573#M264703 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Easy solution is Long Path Tool.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 15:31:17 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-document-previewer-for-documents-with-long-file/m-p/311573#M264703 piercerob 2017-08-05T15:31:17Z