I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
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@alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos
Windows still has a limit of 256 characters for a file's path (directory+name). You can create files that exceed that, but then they're inaccessible until you shorten the path.
I regularly see this in our accounting office, where they make folders with names like "Professor Joe Schmoe, August 2020 - grant numer 123456789 - provisional DO NOT USE THIS ONE version 7", nested several layers deep.
@catselbow @alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos isn't there a registry key to remove that limit?
Just 256 for the whole path sounds very restrictive
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants yes.
oh lord, yes.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants Why do I feel like I should underscore this?..
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants Still wary of spaces, TBH.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants unless it's underscore. Also no spaces; you camel that text
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@catselbow @alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos isn't there a registry key to remove that limit?
Just 256 for the whole path sounds very restrictive
@ariarhythmic @catselbow @alicemcalicepants @frauxirah @piiabartos yes, all modern versions of Windows can support long paths, but the application interacting with the file still has to support it too, and that support has to be compiled in.
Last I looked, even Excel didn’t support this, but that’s been a few years.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants I'm still a little nervous using slashes in filenames with Linux.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants The first time I used a Windows computer was when I had a temp job in a carpet company’s corporate office. Before then, I’d only ever used Apples and DOS. I was new to the 8.3 file name structure. I used those 3 letters to show the name of the person I created the document for & thought I was so clever.
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@alicemcalicepants The first time I used a Windows computer was when I had a temp job in a carpet company’s corporate office. Before then, I’d only ever used Apples and DOS. I was new to the 8.3 file name structure. I used those 3 letters to show the name of the person I created the document for & thought I was so clever.
@alicemcalicepants When Windows asked me what program should open .ABC files, I told it the program I used to create the document. I feel sorry for whoever had to use that computer after I left.
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@DianeBruce @alicemcalicepants More than 26 years ago? BTW if you really want to mess with people on Unix like systems put newlines in the filenames.
@grumpyoldtechie @alicemcalicepants fsdb to the rescue. Of course this was way before ZFS etc. Yes it really messes up a Unix fs!
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@alicemcalicepants And spaces.
@piiabartos @alicemcalicepants I pretty routinely use hyphens and underscores to avoid using spaces. Does that offend?
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants @rk I still don’t do it.
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@alicemcalicepants @rk I still don’t do it.
@octothorpe @rk me neither! The thought was sparked this morning when I created a folder for the new Death Lens album 'What's Left Now' but couldn't bring myself to put the apostrophe in
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@piiabartos @alicemcalicepants I pretty routinely use hyphens and underscores to avoid using spaces. Does that offend?
@maccruiskeen @piiabartos I work on webpages, so of course not
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants I'm "capitalization in filenames doesn't matter" years old.
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@octothorpe @rk me neither! The thought was sparked this morning when I created a folder for the new Death Lens album 'What's Left Now' but couldn't bring myself to put the apostrophe in
@alicemcalicepants @rk And I’ve been using macs since 85, where it’s always been ‘ok’, but I’ve also always had to deal with DOS/Windows stuff so I always backed away.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants
I'm "more than eight characters in a filename feels wrong" years old. -
I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants
Space in filenames are evil, too. -
@piiabartos @alicemcalicepants I pretty routinely use hyphens and underscores to avoid using spaces. Does that offend?
@maccruiskeen @alicemcalicepants That is fine.
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I'm 'using punctuation in a filename feels wrong' years old.
@alicemcalicepants I'm only in my 20s but I will die on the hill that slashes and spaces in filenames are unacceptable
