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Originally Posted by epik
The inaccessibility could happen if you keep on working on presumed path lengths but it never happens because of an effective folder moving. If you move a library, or whatever file or folder, to a not legal path (too long) Windows stops the moving operation when it meets the illegal long path. So it is impossible you succeded in moving a library or calibre at all to a too deep path through Windows.
Since it is impossible that even a single book in your library could break the chars path limit because of a folder moving, the unique case it could happen is when a user add a new book or move a library through calibre itself.
A more accurate check during these operations, and a proper message to the user, should be shown in this case and not on a hypothetical and extremely rare, too long installation or destination path.
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I believe Kovid's objective is to prevent the issue from ever coming up, not have error dialogs pop up through routine library management.
Seems the problem could be solved if this portable menu didn't use such lengthy folder hierarchies (which is probably not a good idea to begin with). As I said, I've
never had problems with the PortableApps.com version of calibre.