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Design Manager 6.0.1: Unable to create directory for the new revision


Record #728

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Core

Problem Title:
Design Manager 6.0.1: Unable to create directory for the new revision


Problem Description:
While attempting to translate a design or create a new revision,
a popup dialog appears saying:

	Unable to create directory for the new revision

Clicking on OK returns the user to the project.  No new revision has been
added to the project.

CAUSE:
DOS has a 63 character limit for a directory path, including the
backslashes (\).  If a design directory is located in a fairly deep
directory, the Design Manager can hit this 63 character limit when it
attempts to create additional subdirectories in the design directory.
This causes the Design Manager to fail to create the revision directory.


Solution 1:

Move the design directory closer to the root directory so that the Design
Manager does not hit the 63 character limit as it attempts to create
subdirectories.

The Design Manager will attempt to create 3 additional levels of
subdirectories (\XPROJECT\VERSIONx\REVISIONx).	Allowing 9 characters
(8 for name + 1 backslash) per directory, the Design Manager could
potentially add 27 characters to a directory path.  As a worst case, the
design directory path should not exceed 36 characters.



End of Record #728