pnutjam's Journal: Long filenames in windows

My company is majority thin client and we access most things via Citrix (or XenApp). Over the past year I have noticed a problem with long filenames in user profiles. It seems to be getting worse and usually the problem file is deep in some macromedia flash cache. The filenames are so long that the roaming profiles will fail to copy and the user will receive a temporary profiles. The fact I have started useing applications streamed to the servers is not helpful because Citrix (in their infinite wisdom) uses seemingling random 38 character filenames for their streamed application cache's.

I have had some success fixing that issue with Citrix's Universal Profile Manager, but the documentation on that is convoluted and I'm a little unsure of the ramifications of some of the options.

I have searched google and found little about this problem. I'm wondering if others are experiencing the same thing, and if so, how are you dealing with the issue. When I purge old profiles from the servers now, it takes hours. I have to delete all the ones I can normally, then dig into the ones that are throwing errors and rename filenames so they are short enough that windows can handle deleting them. This is very tedious.