Forum Discussion
Aug 02, 2020
AppAttach and Package Name length
If the original MSIX package name is too long, the staging will fail due to file path length limitations.
This limit seems to come into play with the junction point.
If "C:\temp\AppAtach\...
Stefan Georgiev
Aug 06, 2020Former Employee
TIMOTHY_MANGAN looking to leverage you expertise here. What if in the product version we do not need a junction?
- Aug 06, 2020
Stefan Georgiev It looks to me like that would knock things down to 2*(N+31), which should be fine for most folks.
We may need to advise shorter package names overall anyway unless/until the MSIX runtime injects the longer \\?\\C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\(N)\VFS style longer paths on all File API calls.
Tim