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#LONG PATH TOOL SAFE WINDOWS#
I’ve also successfully used that “\\?\” method in Python 2.7 scripts: Python itself does not use “\\?\” prefixes, and by default it fails to process paths longer than 260 bytes on versions of Windows < 10/2016 with the registry trick. The registry setting introduced in Windows 10/2016 only allows to get the same result without that “\\?\” prefix string. The documented method to avoid the 260-bytes API limit is to prefix your paths with the “\\?\” string.
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And any application (like my own) using the right APIs can do it. In short, I am not willing to sacrifice my privacy either (that’s why I take all available measures which I believe are enough, without getting paranoid) but I won’t use an OS I don’t like either (Linux cannot replace Windows, at least for what I do) and OSX is too limited (and it has its own privacy issues, too).Īs I stated in my previous post on Jabove, all versions of Windows since XP/2003 do have APIs supporting long paths up to 64KB. Every time I tried it (after the release of W10 that is), I wanted to get back to the newer OS asap (I don’t have a super-PC but it’s not a drag either). Remember, it *is* an old OS and in pure computing terms, it shows its age. I totally understand the need to stick with W7 in order to put some sort of “pressure” into MS to take back some questionable decisions, but I just don’t think it’s worth it – not yet, anyway. Don’t forget that these privacy issues exist not only in other OSes too (W7 too, if you are not careful or use 3rd-party solutions there, too), but in many programs as well (especially security/antivirus suites etc. And you *can* avoid most -if not all- of the new privacy issues. It is faster, more lightweight, pleasant to use and quite customizable. But… the advantages of the new OS still outweigh the disadvantages for me. I don’t like Microsoft’s new direction either. I see what you mean and in principle, I agree. It’s all right, we told you what to dream”. In the words of Pink Floyd: “Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. Yes, life is more than all that and you can choose to ignore all this and set sights on another way of life, but you’re still clobbered by the incessant and sometimes subtle influence of marketing everywhere you go. We’ve gone from being a market economy to being a market society – not the kind of place I want to live in or participate in full-time. Its bad enough that the TVs & radios blurts this constant stream of nonsense 24hrs a day, every 8-10 minutes but now, regular folks (for whom the computer is almost just an “entertainment center”) who use those newer metro-type interfaces see another one of their daily tools or “appliance” hiijacked by all those benevolent corporations that “have something that might interest you”, “try to help you”, “have something you can’t live without”, etc. Wherever you go, there are fewer and fewer places where you are not assaulted with a “get this”, “buy that”, “on sale”, “best product”, etc. My reaction about them being pushed to the machine has more to do with the fact that as a society, just about everything nowadays has to be, or is, monetized. Of course, in the traditional desktop view there are no adverts. Since I’m a “desktop” guy and to me computers are mostly a “tool for a purpose”, the 1st thing I did was configure so the OS would display the traditional desktop instead of the tiles.
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#LONG PATH TOOL SAFE UPDATE#
It seems likely that Microsoft will make it available with the Anniversary Update that it plans to release this Summer.
#LONG PATH TOOL SAFE WINDOWS 10#
Please note that the feature is currently only available as part of the latest Fast Ring Windows 10 Insider Build.