It has long been aware that Windows Explorer and most Windows-based applications can not work with files and folders, the path length which is greater than 260 characters. And it is - only a soft limit on the Win32 API level, also known as MAX_PATH, while the NTFS file system itself allows up to 32,767 characters in the address of the file system object, than successfully used third-party applications work around the standard the API, for example, FAR and Total Commander.
Also, this restriction does not apply to work with files in network access: ordinary user can not create and modify files and folders (shared folder), created by administrator via the Windows Explorer . Moreover, the restriction took place not only in the Windows 7/8 / 8.1 and earlier operating systems, but also in the latest Windows 10.
To bypass the restrictions , depending on the situation there is a number of different techniques: symbolic links, manual reduction of characters number , the creation of virtual disks and so on.
And, as reported by a number of testers regularly produced private builds of Windows 10, Microsoft has finally condescended to fix this shortcoming and fix release. In the Group Policy templates when the corresponding option "Enable NTFS long addresses" (Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> File System -> NTFS).
The only thing that upsets - the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) does not exist in versions of Windows 10, other than the "Professional" and "Enterprise" (although there are informal and not entirely legal ways around this limitation), however, the necessary keys in the registry will surely be. found.As suggested by one of our readers, this option LongPathsEnabled (type DWORD), located in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Policies.
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