[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2015-12-06T19:50:59Z" content=""" I can reproduce this. symlink("../.git/annex/objects/fK/9M/URL--http&c%%mvod.lvlt.rtve.es%resour-39e58395b01e2385d46bade56127cfc4/URL--http&c%%mvod.lvlt.rtve.es%resour-39e58395b01e2385d46bade56127cfc4", ".git/annex/misctmp/Documentos_RNE___Coss\303\255o_y_la_Casona_de_Tudanca__refugio_de_la_cultura_espa\303\261ola_entre_las_monta\303\261as_de_Cantabria___28_08_15.mp3.0Documentos_RNE___Coss\303\255o_y_la_Casona_de_Tudanca__refugio_de_la_cultura_espa\303\261ola_entre_las_monta\303\261as_de_Cantabria___28_08_15.mp3") = -1 ENAMETOOLONG (File name too long) The problem is not the length of the link target, which is only 170 characters and will work on any OS. The basename of the symlink being created is pretty long, 294 characters, and that's the cause of the failure. joey@darkstar:~>ln -s /dev/null $(perl -e 'print ("a" x 294)') ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa’ -> ‘/dev/null’: File name too long The limit is 255 characters in a single path component (`pathconf _PC_NAME_MAX`). So, the issue is caused by the rss feed having a long title for this item. And this used to work; it's a recent reversion. Fixing. """]]