Question
Can Intella handle long path names in evidence files?
Answer
Intella can properly index files with long path names.
An in-house test was done to confirm this. The folder structure we used for testing could not have been created manually in Windows Explorer due to the restrictions it imposes on path lengths. To create folders with such long file paths, we in fact used Intella’s exporting functionality.
Windows Explorer will typically give a warning when trying to delete folders with such long path names.
These files with long path names were indexed properly in Intella and could also be exported again without issue.
MS Outlook PST files
There is a limitation on the length of the path of a PST file when exporting mails to that PST. This has nothing to do with the actual items or their sources, just the location of the generated PST file. This is actually an Outlook limitation, as we use Outlook beneath the surface to create the PST file.
This is the only path length limitation within Intella that we are aware of.