MISSING LIBRARY

[Anonymous]

" THE LIBRARY CONTAINS ONE OR MORE LIBRARY PARTS WHOSE PATH IS TOO LONG; THE LIBRARY CANNOT BE ADDED TO THE ACTIVE LIBRARIES"

- I have the missing libraries and I have tried to add them. Basically search with browser and add the library. However the error message above appears. Anyone know why and what to do ?

- is this a question of the directory address not matching the original file source directory ? Or is is really a question of something (i.e the path directory ) being too long ?

Weird- I have put the library on my desktop so as to avoid a "long path directory" when adding the missing files. which I I assume what is meant when it says "PATH IS TOO LONG"

Any help please? note: the missing files are libraries so --- .icf files as well as reference to a general folder called library22

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[Lingwisyer]

Are you using Windows? Have you tried the work around mentioned in Moonlight's thread?



Ling.

[Anonymous]

YES I AM USING WINDOWS - Moonlight thread ? Where is this ? let me see if i can find...

Siad

[Barry Kelly]

atfonit wrote:
YES I AM USING WINDOWS - Moonlight thread ? Where is this ? let me see if i can find...

Ling has hidden the link in the word "thread".
Just click on it.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

yes saw it thanks - this is for Windows 10 but thanks anyway.

[Nader Belal]

@atfonit
Look, the only solution to the last mentioned problem, is to change the location of your uploaded library part so that you never reach the 260 characters mark (path, filename, and file extension included), and that is the easy fix.

This method is also applicable to Windows 7, you just have to google it.

On other hand, I was asking that if I can extend the characters path limit safely in windows, why ArchiCAD does't accept it !!!

[Anonymous]

moonlight thx

fyi, I tired this and it still didn't work. I put the library file on my desktop so no real path as such to hinder the process and with short file name - the problem still exists - saying file name too long.

Very Weird....
I am wondering if because its a french library its not recognizing the text ? i am trying to add in a FR in to a INT version of ArchiCAD22.

[Nader Belal]

Put it on C drive.

Also see how is the library is structured from the inside.

[Barry Kelly]

atfonit wrote:
I put the library file on my desktop so no real path as such to hinder the process and with short file name - the problem still exists - saying file name too long.

Try C-drive as Moonlight has suggested.
The desktop still has the path ... C:\Users\username\Desktop
This could be just enough to still tip you over the limit.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

As per Barry and Moonlight’s (Nader) suggestion place library at root level of c drive and I would also rename the library to a single character.
Then I would extract the library container (File > Libraries and Objects > Create/Extract a Container) from there in Windows explorer I would edit sub folder names to minimise path lengths and also not have folders within folders, a ‘wide’ shallow file structure is preferable to a ‘narrow’ deep file structure.

Regards
Scott