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by dboon 26 days ago
Can you show me a realistic case with a longer path?
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magicalhippo 25 days ago
I guess the c8 means you don't plan on supporting Unicode on Windows? If you do, there's the 32768 "character" max path which since Win10 is opt-in without jumping through hoops.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maxim...

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scott01 26 days ago
I have email backups from a provider where filenames are extremely long.
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