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cinntailetoday at 12:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

You can change that setting in Windows so that it no longer has a 255 character limit.


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f4stjacktoday at 12:45 PM

Yes, you can but then if you have any older software in your system (for company reasons) will not play ball. And it is a workaround, not a permanent solution. Because we still do not have that fabled WinFS so...

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knollimartoday at 12:45 PM

One drive still dies though

Tangurena2today at 2:03 PM

Win64 lacks the problem with 255 characters [0]. However, stuff like File Explorer, which the vast majority of my users actually use, can only pass the first 255 characters to the registered application [1], so will Explorer will display stuff with huge long paths, double-clicking that file, or right clicking and "Compress to..." will cause an error.

0 - 32 bit windows will always have this problem.

1 - This is because File Explorer uses a hodgepodge of Win32 and Win64 stuff behind the scenes when running 64 bit windows.