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NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁 (en.wikipedia.org)
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As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop, I swear) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install πŸ‘

...and Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System!

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[–] [S] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

C:\Users\axexandriaanastasiachristianson\Downloads\some_git_repo\src\...

You run into the file parth limit all the fucking time if you're a developer at an organization that enforces fullname usernames.

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  • [+] -8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think I've spotted the real problem.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    People have been talking about the real problem from the beginning of the thread: small character limit on file paths.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The limit is 32,000 characters.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Only if you go into settings, disable the safety measures and change it. And some apps might break.

    No, the default file path limit is 256 characters. And I don’t mean file name. Full file path.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, you don't need to change any settings, that's the thing! Windows, unlike other OSes, has several APIs. Old apps (and dumb apps) are using old API and are limited to 260 characters. New apps are using new API and are limited by 32k characters. This "new API" is available since NT4, btw.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    I would be pissed if they made me use such a ridiculously long login name at work. Mine is twelve characters and that's already a pain in the ass (but it's a huge company and I have a really common name, so I guess all the shorter variations were already taken).

    Edit: Also, I checked it's really very simple to enable 32kb paths in recent versions of Windows.

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