I just helped someone delete a file that they couldn’t delete in Windows by booting into a Linux live USB, mounting their HD there and deleting it in Linux.
I think it was due to the filename containing special characters or even maybe that it was over 255 characters long. How is it 2023 and Windows still has problems like this?
The person was running Windows 11. I sent a detailed article about it to them as well (with some thousands of words), but in the end they even found it easier to just boot into Linux and delete it.
Look man I don’t really run windows anymore. I’m no longer a l33t power user like yourself. I found some microsoft learning bullshit article and sent it over because I didn’t have an agenda to make them use Linux or anything.
If you want to apologize for a system that still has problems like this in 2023, feel free to waste your time. I’ll be here not having these 1990s problems on the regular because I don’t run this pile of crap anymore except on my gaming computer.
Oh yeah no I missread what you wrote. That article is ridiculous, which is about as good as any other microsoft made article for windows.
It also doesn’t tell you how to actually resolve file names being too long either. Which is what I meant is a simpleish fix. It’s one edit in registry.
Yup, I have a few folders of classical music on an old hard drive that I can’t delete in Windows because the name is too long. I just haven’t bothered connecting them to Linux yet.
I once naively used Windows file copy utility to transfer my huge MP3 library to an external hard drive and later lost the originals. I came to find out it silently failed to copy any songs containing certain nonalphanumeric characters. To this day I’m still traumatized when I try to locate some song and find it’s not there. Burn in hell Windows.
I just helped someone delete a file that they couldn’t delete in Windows by booting into a Linux live USB, mounting their HD there and deleting it in Linux.
I think it was due to the filename containing special characters or even maybe that it was over 255 characters long. How is it 2023 and Windows still has problems like this?
You can disable the path length limit on Windows 10 by editing registry or group policy.
The person was running Windows 11. I sent a detailed article about it to them as well (with some thousands of words), but in the end they even found it easier to just boot into Linux and delete it.
Yeah. I think the issue is you sent them an article with thousands of words. If I saw that I would look for a different solution.
How did you even find an article with so many words? It is a simpleish fix to do.
Look man I don’t really run windows anymore. I’m no longer a l33t power user like yourself. I found some microsoft learning bullshit article and sent it over because I didn’t have an agenda to make them use Linux or anything.
Look at this fucking thing: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-server/backup-and-storage/cannot-delete-file-folder-on-ntfs-file-system
If you want to apologize for a system that still has problems like this in 2023, feel free to waste your time. I’ll be here not having these 1990s problems on the regular because I don’t run this pile of crap anymore except on my gaming computer.
Oh yeah no I missread what you wrote. That article is ridiculous, which is about as good as any other microsoft made article for windows.
It also doesn’t tell you how to actually resolve file names being too long either. Which is what I meant is a simpleish fix. It’s one edit in registry.
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who the fuck knows how to do that anyway
Same as Linux, first you don’t know then you learn.
Yup, I have a few folders of classical music on an old hard drive that I can’t delete in Windows because the name is too long. I just haven’t bothered connecting them to Linux yet.
I once naively used Windows file copy utility to transfer my huge MP3 library to an external hard drive and later lost the originals. I came to find out it silently failed to copy any songs containing certain nonalphanumeric characters. To this day I’m still traumatized when I try to locate some song and find it’s not there. Burn in hell Windows.