New Library - Zip Download Problems


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Silver Crusade

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Just wanted to raise as an issue whenever I download anything as a ZIP with multiple files, the string of the file name is too large when I try and move it from the zip folder to another folder, and often times I cannot rename it in the ZIP.

Right now my work around is to download files individually.

But if the filename text string can be truncated or shortened when packaging the file as a zip it might solve some issues if I'm trying to download say an adventure and its associated interactive map pack in a single zip.


You may wish to specify what operating system you're using and what particular files / filenames you're experiencing this with in order to make it easier for Paizo and others to reproduce this issue (and thus, for Paizo to determine what may need to be fixed). I think most modern systems support file names up to 255ish characters long, although it appears that some versions of Windows (pre-10 and earlier versions of 10) might have that be the limit for the entire filepath rather than just the filename, so if you're on such a version it could be that it's nested too deeply inside of other folders?

When I just downloaded a ZIP file from the new store's library to test this out, the filename was about 45 characters long, so well below what should be the usable limit on any modern system. (Granted, it'd be great if the filenames were more descriptive rather than being a long string of hexadecimal, but purely in terms of length it doesn't appear like it should be causing any issues). Is there a particular file you're downloading that has a substantially longer filename?

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

I experienced this with both Bastion of Blasphemies and Dead Gods Hand.

Windows 11.


Good to know! I'm not able to test that but hopefully someone on a similar system who has one of those downloads can take a look.

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