On Friday, August 31, 2012, Chris Zwar wrote:

AFAIK it's an OS limitation.  It's the same on Macs and Windows.  It's a pretty rare problem to run into - I can think of 3 times in about 15 years that it's happened to me, so even if it's something that Adobe can fix then it's probably pretty low on their priorities.

On 31/08/2012, at 9:02 PM, Peter Mock wrote:

> Thank you Chris,
> This is a really ennoying error in AE,
> Aren't they able to fix this?
> Peter
>
> On 31 Aug 2012, at 11:54, Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This happens when the total number of characters in the file path exceeds 255 characters.  It usually happens when you have lots of folders nested inside each other, but can also happen if your directories and files have very long names.  The solution is to either re-name the offending file with a shorter name, or if it happens a lot, then reduce the number of folders that are nested inside each other.
>>
>> -Chris