I'm just a newbie here, still learning the ropes, but here's my two cents: I can't speak for CL, but an old rule of thumb is that a path length (total number of characters in all the names in a directory structure, starting with the top folder and continuing down through the subfolders to any destination file) should be less than 256 characters. Another old rule of thumb is that the total number of items in any directory level should be less than 256. To be honest, for sanity's sake, maybe it should be less than 100. These things vary from Windows to Unix to Mac to BeOS to Linux, and they may no longer be mandatory, but why not give it a try?