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Alternative to Windows Explorer for long path names

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Mar 15, 202620111 views
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Update: I found that not only Windows Explorer but also other software suffers from too long path names. For example, in Firefox, when I save a webpage into a directory, I still cannot do it if its name or path name is too long. Does Firefox also rely on Windows Explorer? How can I solve that probl…

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Fix for: Alternative to Windows Explorer for long path names

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While NTFS allows paths some 32,000 characters long, you've found the 259-character path length limitation of the Win32 API. In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the [linked document]), the maximum length for a path is , which is de…

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