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It is a portable application which does not leave any of the traces in the Windows registry. Microsoft always has pressure to look after legacy, and I can see the 260 character limit being around for a very long time.Long Path Tool 5.1.6 Crack is an impressive application which will enable you to delete the blocked and long path files from the PC by moving them to the Recycle Bin. The best use case I can think of currently is having a location you can extract out long paths (maybe that came from a Unix box?) so you can adjust back down to the 260 limit, or get out the files you need. For example, if you’re doing a file level backup, will your backup software both read and write beyond the 260 character limit? It should only be used for special cases, and a lot of things may break or just not support it.
This to me seems a good reason for Microsoft to not make Long Paths on by default. From this, if you’re going to use long paths in Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10, use PowerShell to manage your files! I was also able to create files at that level. I also couldn’t create folders or files at that level or seveal levels up:īack into PowerShell, I had to scroll to see beyond my current folder path! I could see 29 folders in the tree, and the 30th on the right hand pane, but couldn’t actually get into it. The ability to drill down further had gone. Seeing what Windows Explorer would do, I was surprised that I’d hit a different limit: PowerShell happily went mad creating subfolder after subfolder, although the speed of subfolder creation went from ludicrous speed to very very slow as it ran. What about PowerShell? That seemed to be very happy with the extra characters, so I made a complex script containing the lines “md 12characters” and “cd 12characters” many, many times.
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“The full path of 12characters is too long” What’s strange about this is that Windows Explorer itself wouldn’t break the 260 character wall directly, but once it was passed, it was happy to read through and continue on further.īack on the command prompt, it had let me navigate one folder further than before into the 19th, but wouldn’t delve any deeper: I then went back to the original path to see if I could navigate all the way to the bottom, and I could:Ģ2 folders called ’12 characters’ = 264 characters by itself, and I was then able to create a subfolder called “New Folder”. I couldn’t create a folder in that same path for the same reason, so I created a share on the very bottom of the tree, went to the share name and started creating more folders. What about Windows Explorer? This is where things got a bit strange. Why wasn’t it working?Ī few reasons the app itself needs to support the new API calls to go beyond 260 characters, and I dare say Command Prompt hasn’t been touched yet due to the potential of breaking things. Then add the slashes and you’re around 233 characters. “12characters” contains… 12 characters, so 18 folders * 12 characters = 216. I then found this technet thread which agreed that they are the same setting.Īfter applying the setting and rebooting, I tested via Command Prompt to see how far I’d get: The name and description are very similar.
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I also checked on Windows 10 Enterprise fully patched, and the option was also missing. I found this similar option though, one level down:
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This doesn’t exist on my fully updated Windows 10 Pro install: One of the mentioned methods of turning the feature on is to use Group Policy at Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Filesystem > Enable NTFS long paths. There’s a mix of information out there, and I’ve found some catches. Enabling “ Long Paths” doesn’t magically remove the limit, it enables longer paths in certain situations.įirstly – enabling the policy itself.
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When researching this, I found quite a few articles that said how to enable the setting but didn’t really go into it any deeper, and my testing found that it’s not as simple as described. With Windows 10 anniverasry edition and Windows Server 2016, it’s possibe to get around the 260 character limit with some caveats. Microsoft have a great article about how all this works and the reasons why. The legacy 8.3 filename restrictions that came from the old MS-DOS days are (for the most part) long gone, but one of the other lingering legacy limitations is the 260 character limit.
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