RE: [WDSCI-L] Saving Workspace

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Brian Parkins
> 
> I'd be interested to know of any "strategies" for backing up WDSc
> workspaces - especially to offline media.
> 
> Does anyone bother to save their workspace(s) on a regular basis,
(e.g.
> CD-RW)?
> 
> Have you encountered problems with the long path names and file names?

I use lots of workspaces, Brian, and I like to back them up to DVD.
There are definitely issues with the long names.  Windows has a limit
somewhere around 253 characters, after which bad things happen,
including files getting copied to the root folder and so on.  WinZip has
problems with long names, as do many of the DVD burning programs.

I've found that keeping the only way to be successful is to keep folder
names for my workspaces to under about 20 characters.  I have a folder
in root called WDSC, and in it I keep subfolders for projects.  I keep
the names for the subfolders VERY short.

There's one situation in particular that I can't recreate right now
where a debug class is created having a generated path and file name
over 200 characters, and that's WITHOUT including the folder name.

Joe