Can't reverse back to shortpath?

Question

Hi,

I have this folder path in short-form like this

C:\Users\admin\Downloads\NEWFOL~2\NEWFOL~1\...\NEWFOL~1

using GetLongPathName, then I have

C:\Users\admin\Downloads\New folder (2) - Copy - Copy test\New folder\...\New folder

but now using GetShortPathName,

length = GetShortPathName(lpszPath, NULL, 0); //with getlasterror=0

the length alway return 0;

seems like the lpszPath is too long causing it to fail, if I remove some characters in lpszPath to <256, now it works.

Is there a way to reclaim the original short path?

Thanks you!

Answer 1

As noted in the documentation:

"By default, the name is limited to MAX_PATH characters. To extend this limit to 32,767 wide characters, prepend "\\?\" to the path."

Have you tried doing that?