• Paulemeister@feddit.org
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    13 hours ago

    I think it failed because the Mail software they used had a bug that couldn’t handle very large E-Mail subjects. Then they were like “See? This linux thing is bad. Go back to Microsoft on everything right now”

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      11 hours ago

      hilarious when considering that Windows still cannot handle filepaths longer than 256 characters

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        6 hours ago

        I think I ran into that problem once but there’s a registry key you can set to allow longer filepaths

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          4 hours ago

          yeah if you try to, say, open a pdf with a filepath that is too long, it just doesn’t do anything

          many such cases.

          this is a problem for our SharePoint/OneDrive setup because our own directory gets quite long once you dig down into dpmt folders in projects, then you try to access the contents of an uncompressed customer package that’s neatly organized by folders and has filenames that are 50+ characters long by themselves… it’s annoying