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louis222

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    maximum path length
    « on: August 04, 2017, 06:39:39 AM »
    maximum path length in  windows 10 I've been experiencing this error and its irritating . how can I fix this one? I need it asap . Thank you

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    Re: maximum path length
    « Reply #1 on: August 04, 2017, 09:02:18 AM »
    Make a junction point (hard link) or a symbolic link that points to a location sufficently deep in the offending long path.


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    Re: maximum path length
    « Reply #2 on: August 04, 2017, 10:08:18 AM »
    Or go back to file management basics...
    To me it makes zero sense to have files nested 5 or 6 layers deep...
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    Re: maximum path length
    « Reply #3 on: August 04, 2017, 04:13:46 PM »
    If you are on Win10 Anniversary Update you can also enable longer paths by editing the registry.

    in Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem there is a LongPathEnabled Setting. You can turn this on.

    However this will not work for all programs, only those which declare they can work with it. Which should include the programs included with Windows, but other programs might not be able to.

    That all said this seems like a "Setup" for that spam for "*SPAM*".
    I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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    Re: maximum path length
    « Reply #4 on: August 04, 2017, 07:04:50 PM »
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    That all said this seems like a "Setup" for that spam for "*SPAM*".

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