β² 457 βΌ NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems π (en.wikipedia.org) submitted 3 years ago by riskable@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world 154 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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 π ...and Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System!
[+] lolcatnip@reddthat.com -8 points 3 years ago (1 child) I think I've spotted the real problem. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) The limit is 32,000 characters. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 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 donβt mean file name. Full file path. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I remember I had to change a setting when using Windows. And it even showed me an βAre you sure?β dialog. It wasnβt that long ago. Is that not a thing anymore? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Once again, that only affects old or dumb apps. Any half decent app supports 32k paths since late 1990-s. permalink fedilink source parent [β] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] orangeboats@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago If your name consists of non-ASCII characters, like Thai words or Arabic or Chinese, it's pretty easy to rack up >15 bytes in your username alone. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] bighi@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) The limit is 32,000 characters. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 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 donβt mean file name. Full file path. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I remember I had to change a setting when using Windows. And it even showed me an βAre you sure?β dialog. It wasnβt that long ago. Is that not a thing anymore? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Once again, that only affects old or dumb apps. Any half decent app supports 32k paths since late 1990-s. permalink fedilink source parent [β] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] orangeboats@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago If your name consists of non-ASCII characters, like Thai words or Arabic or Chinese, it's pretty easy to rack up >15 bytes in your username alone. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) The limit is 32,000 characters. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 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 donβt mean file name. Full file path. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I remember I had to change a setting when using Windows. And it even showed me an βAre you sure?β dialog. It wasnβt that long ago. Is that not a thing anymore? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Once again, that only affects old or dumb apps. Any half decent app supports 32k paths since late 1990-s. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] bighi@lemmy.world 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 donβt mean file name. Full file path. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I remember I had to change a setting when using Windows. And it even showed me an βAre you sure?β dialog. It wasnβt that long ago. Is that not a thing anymore? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Once again, that only affects old or dumb apps. Any half decent app supports 32k paths since late 1990-s. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Aux@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] bighi@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I remember I had to change a setting when using Windows. And it even showed me an βAre you sure?β dialog. It wasnβt that long ago. Is that not a thing anymore? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Once again, that only affects old or dumb apps. Any half decent app supports 32k paths since late 1990-s. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] bighi@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I remember I had to change a setting when using Windows. And it even showed me an βAre you sure?β dialog. It wasnβt that long ago. Is that not a thing anymore? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Aux@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Once again, that only affects old or dumb apps. Any half decent app supports 32k paths since late 1990-s. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Aux@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Once again, that only affects old or dumb apps. Any half decent app supports 32k paths since late 1990-s. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] orangeboats@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago If your name consists of non-ASCII characters, like Thai words or Arabic or Chinese, it's pretty easy to rack up >15 bytes in your username alone. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] orangeboats@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago If your name consists of non-ASCII characters, like Thai words or Arabic or Chinese, it's pretty easy to rack up >15 bytes in your username alone. permalink fedilink source parent