file dialog can only handle a limited amount of multiple selections

[rfriedr1]

Hi friends,
I found that the file dialog of LV8.20 can only handle a limited number of multiple file selections. I can not open/select more than 750 file at one time. Is there any solution to select more than this at once?

Cheers.
Ronny

[Philipp R.]

Dear Ronny

Which file dialog VI are you using? I tried the 'File Dialog' Express-VI and
could easily open 800 files.

Best regards

Philipp Roessler

[rfriedr1]

Hi Philipp,
thanks for your answer. You are right. I didn't used the express file dialog VI. I chnaged it to the express Vi but it still doesn't work. I found out that it's not related to the number of files but it depend rather to the length of the file names.
I tried to open 1020 files with filenames that have about 20 - 30 characters. I only able to open about 760 files with the express file dialog VI. After that I've changed all filenames just to number from 1 to 1020 and I was able to open all files.

It seems that the lengthes of the filename strings are the limiting factor. Strange and not quite usefull, isn't it?

Cheers.
Ronny

[TCPlomp]

Have you looked at the length of the path as well, an interesting thing to test is to flatten the array of paths into a string and see the string size, I think there is some limit (maybe at OS side?)

Ton