WSS 3.0 Hi, I copied a link of a folder inside a document library to an email and when I click to open the link, I get the following error: Error An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily close Web Parts or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator. There is no problem when i browse to the same folder from inside the SharePoint site. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot in advance

How did you copy the link to the email ? You can get the option 'Send To - Email a link ' option to get the correct link of the document to your mail. & the error- basically appears when your webpart page is corrupted, normally happens when you have a custom webpart added to the page. Recheck the link url, since you dont have problem accessing the folder inside the site. Regards, Aj (http://www.aj-sharepoint.blogspot.com/) MCTS

Can you please give us the URL a) your browser shows when surfing to the folder b) of this error-page you can blacken the domain, of course.

Thanks guys, The link is: http://server-wss3-prod/sites/usa/BD/IntGeo/RFPs%20and%20Proposals/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fsites%2fusa%2fBD%2fIntGeo%2fRFPs%20and%20Proposals%2fNV%20Energy%202010%2fNV%20Energy%202010%20Bid%20Protocol%20documents&FolderCTID=0x012000E14059DB77F0E54294E2BF01D86E909D&View=%7bDD5432D9%2dB2B4%2d41BF%2dAD19%2dBFD6021ED8E9%7d I know that the limit is 255 char but still how should I send this link to users?

Here is the link of the error page i get: http://server-wss3-prod/sites/usa/BD/IntGeo/RFPs%20and%20Proposals/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fsites%2fusa%2fBD%2fIntGeo%2fRFPs%20and%20Proposals%2fNV%20Energy%202010%2fNV%20Energy%202010%20Bid%20Protocol%20documents&FolderCTID=0x012000E14059DB77F0E54 Here is the link of the folder when I surf: http://server-wss3-prod/sites/usa/BD/IntGeo/RFPs%20and%20Proposals/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fsites%2fusa%2fBD%2fIntGeo%2fRFPs%20and%20Proposals%2fNV%20Energy%202010%2fNV%20Energy%202010%20Bid%20Protocol%20documents&FolderCTID=0x012000E14059DB77F0E54294E2BF01D86E909D&View=%7bDD5432D9%2dB2B4%2d41BF%2dAD19%2dBFD6021ED8E9%7d

The problem is that your email-client reads and/or gives to the browser only the first 255 characters of the URL. So the problem is with your email-client. Nevertheless it is enough skipping all URL-parameters aside from RootFolder: http://server-wss3-prod/sites/usa/BD/IntGeo/RFPs%20and%20Proposals/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fsites%2fusa%2fBD%2fIntGeo%2fRFPs%20and%20Proposals%2fNV%20Energy%202010%2fNV%20Energy%202010%20Bid%20Protocol%20documents The URL-Length is short enough now and your users will come to the right folder.

Thanks Markus. It did the job for now but there is still a chance that the limit will exceed, Right?

right, this part of the URL has already a length of 99 chars. http://server-wss3-prod/sites/usa/BD/IntGeo/RFPs%20and%20Proposals/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder A file within SP can have a max length of 127 chars, filename plus path can have a max length of 255 chars, so you only have 156 chars left for both. 156 chars minus escape chars to be exactly. If you only set the path to a folder and not directly to a file chances are good to keep within the limit.