![]() ![]() ![]() Setting the registry key, but it also gave us hope. This definitely explained why most of the things did not Just Work™️ after Wrong assumptions about this limitation so it would only make sense for it to They’re right, who knows how much of the third-party software out there makes Here, showing how much they care about backwards compatibility. Set, the application that wants to use long paths NEEDS to embed thatĪpplication manifest at build time. ![]() What actually needs to happen: in addition to having the registry key Per-application basis through the application manifest. MAX_PATH limitation is globally controlled by the registry key, and on a Microsoft’s official documentation, we came to the (wrong) conclusion that the What we thought needs to happen: by conflating other (wrong) sources with In Microsoft’s article, just under registry example The second options comes with a catch, which we failed to notice when we first doing this will remove the limitation in the Win32 functions, and will enable them to work with long paths without the extended prefix.disable the limitation by changing a registry value (needs at least Windows 10, version 1607).it would also require extensive refactoring throughout any software that decides to implement long path support.this format does not support relative paths.specify long paths using the extended-length format (e.g.Problem they’ve put together a nice document 1 detailing how to work around If there’s one thing I’ve grown to appreciate from Microsoft, it’s theirĮxtensive API documentation (I’m looking at you, Apple □). Windows, fortunately I was able to work around it by specifying a shorter Of my head I remember seeing the error when installing the boost libraries on Really not that much for a file path, the limit can be hit easily. However, there’s also a hard limit of 260Ĭharacters, MAX_PATH, which is enforced in all Win32 API file managementĪ short Google search for “ windows long file paths” shows that this issue isįrequently hit by developers and regular users alike. In theory, Windows’s NTFS filesystem supports a maximum of an approximate 32767Ĭharacters in a file path. Help of renowned triple-A game Hitman™️ (I’m 100% serious) and generally have a Modify old code, graft resources onto Windows executables, build Ruby with the Referred to in a different format, first-party apps like Notepad or FileĮxplorer start to behave erratically, and there’s no guarantee what works andīuckle up, as we’re about to go on a perilous journey where we’ll encounter and In short, if aįile path surpasses 260 characters, it’s open season: the path has to be Windows due to a limitation in the Windows operating system. Specifically, Puppet modules with long file paths could not be installed on Over the past few months, we’ve had a long-standing issue related to Puppet on ![]()
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