Not opening some files

[chipili]

I'm a long-term Salamander user (since V2).

I have found that Salamander will not permit me to open (double click file name) for certain files.

Demonstrated so far on Excels.

Maybe it's path length (this is a long path on a network) but same folder but longer name Word docs will open.

Not only open but any other file commands I've tried - such as copy (F5 or CTRL-C CTRL-V).

Copy the same file in Explorer to a shorter path it opens.

The concern is that Salamander is not giving me a message/reason.

I know it's not going to change but would appreciate an understanding of why some files fail (Excels) but others (Words) do not.

Win 11 Office 365.

Cheers,
Chipili

[therube]

It's going to be a fullpathlength of 260 characters.
(Or somewhere right around there. 259 is OK. Didn't have a 260 on hand... 261 fails.)


There could be other reasons too.
Like an "illegal" (perhaps unicode ?) [to Windows] character in a filename, in such cases will cause a no-action result in Salamander.


Maybe ? some of these newer Salamanders can work around said issues (unsure, as I'm still on Win7)?