{"id":166850,"date":"2023-04-05T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/we-use-nfs-mounts-and-when-i-try-to-install-18-2-and-19-0-using-the-silent-options-i-get-the-following-error-error-install-directory-error-the-installation-directory-path-is-too-long\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:35:01","slug":"we-use-nfs-mounts-and-when-i-try-to-install-18-2-and-19-0-using-the-silent-options-i-get-the-following-error-error-install-directory-error-the-installation-directory-path-is-too-long","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/we-use-nfs-mounts-and-when-i-try-to-install-18-2-and-19-0-using-the-silent-options-i-get-the-following-error-error-install-directory-error-the-installation-directory-path-is-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"We use NFS mounts, and when I try to install 18.2 and 19.0 using the -silent options, I get the following error:   >>>&#8212;> Error: Install Directory Error:  The installation directory path is too long. Current Maximum Path Length: 100 A path greater than the current maximum path length could cause problems when running the product. Please choose a shorter path.   <Press RETURN to Continue>   How can I disable the 100 character length limit for the path?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We actually set the path limit to 100 characters for all installations because some ANSYS applications can&#8217;t handle being buried in a directory structure that is too deep.    You will need to choose to install to a location that does not contain so many characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-166850","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4391","topic-tag-installation","topic-tag-installation-process","topic-tag-installation-licensing-systems","topic-tag-mechanical-sys","topic-tag-silent-installation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["5\/4\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["153867"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["1390"],"siebel_km_number":["2054437"],"product_version":["19"],"km_published_date":["2018-05-03T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Installation\/Licensing\/Systems"],"application_name":["Mechanical - SYS"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/166850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/166850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}