[#IDEA-9175] Can't move directories

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Can't move directories

Created: 05 Sep 06 00:13 Updated: 14 Nov 06 13:35

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Refactoring

Build:	5,581
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On some directories move refactoring actions is disabled. Probably there are files with long names in them. It is possible to move them from other applications. If I turn off version control (SVN) this didn't help.

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Dmitry Jemerov - 07 Sep 06 12:18

Any details? Are the directories located under the source root of any package?
Obviously the length of file names doesn't matter to IDEA, as it's not an MS-DOS application.

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Konstantin Solomatov - 07 Sep 06 12:45

You can reproduce this if you open the mps project on my PC (\\UNIT-051\MPS-src). If you try to move for example ProjectHalo/languages directory under the ProjectHalo module the move action will be disabled by some reason.

As far as I know Windows have a path length limitation. You can read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems. More problem can be caused by subversion that creates a lot of subdirectories of .svn dirs.