Accessing folders with absolute path having chars 256

Question

Hi, while writing a program that recurses through the dirs and subdirs to find the size of folders tha abs path to the folder became > 256 chars and I got "can't access this folder; path is too long" message. please suggest any workaround for this problem except renaming the parent folders to shorten the path length.

Answer 1

I am working on Win2K and the part of code is :
for(int i = 0; i < listFolders.length; i++){ //throws NullPointerException here
                      if(listFolders.isDirectory()){
          mytasks.add(listFolders[i]);
          }else if(listFolders[i].isFile()){
                              size += (listFolders[i].length())/1000; //modified here- convert to KB
                              countFiles++;
          if(listFolders[i].lastModified() > max){
          max = listFolders[i].lastModified();
               fileName = listFolders[i].getAbsolutePath();
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ravishakya
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