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Typical linux: as user-friendly as a Harley-Davidson with a sextant. * (of an indeterminate length equal roughly to the length of a *long* pieceĪn app that blames the file system is like a workman that blames his tools.Īnyway, it looks like ext4 has no path limit but a 255 byte filename length, which delivers a varying character count depending, it seems, what chars you use. Should not use long filenames* because it was a bit rough around the edges.
#Freefilesync directory on right not showing install
What would be better for everyone is if FFS told them on install that they Anyway, just do the readers of your file names a favor and make them > FreeFileSync however cannot do is work miracles (=make a "no-so-good" file
#Freefilesync directory on right not showing windows
> That's a limitation for NTFS on Windows which FreeFileSync can work around > Its FAQ page brags about being able to handle path names "with more than Then why is it telling me my filenames are too long? > For all intents and purposes: Infinte (=that's a by-90°-rotated 8) > And what's the maximum path length FFS can handle? Its limits are and why my filenames come up against them. Of all the people, forums and packages, FFS is best placed to tell me what Messenger asleep in the manger who didn't even bother getting on his horse. No, don't shoot the messenger who delivers a message. I still don't think in terms of filename length because my Thunarįile browser, like FFS, doesn't bother to tell me what its limits actually Only, sometimes my system tells me IĬan't use a filename (at the point at which I'm naming it) because it's too
No, actually, I was wrong to say that as a user I think in terms of file > Don't blame the messenger (=FreeFileSync), blame the sender (=your
#Freefilesync directory on right not showing software
> They mean nothing to anyone but software programs, software programmers > You do realise I am a user? I think in terms of file length. "Okay, but I'd better do a quick backup first." I was too distracted by my words from this morning still echoing around my Oh your other message slipped in without me noticing before I'd finished Perhaps I should ask the nymph at the bottom of the river. Perhaps I should ask the jailor in debtors' prison. Perhaps I should ask the genie at the end of the bottle. So what is the FFS path limit? Perhaps I should ask the big beefy bulldogs in town who laugh at you for being a loser. Perhaps that's why they don't say what the actual limit is. Hardly seems worth bragging about when the increase is so small anyway. And anyway, that seems a nonsense number because the path length on these files is about 316 to 323 chars. That makes it less a FAQ than marketing chuff. It doesn't bother to tell you what the maximum is. Its FAQ page brags about being able to handle path names "with more than 260 characters".
They mean nothing to anyone but software programs, software programmers and system administrators.Īnd what's the maximum path length FFS can handle? It doesn't say. You do realise I am a user? I think in terms of file length. If no characters are removed and FFS is told to, FFS will reject it, even if the filename length is less than other files it has accepted.ĭon't tell me it's not file length that FFS measures but path length? Īs long as any number of characters is removed from the filename, FFS will accept the renamed file, even if its length is greater than other files it has rejected.
In each case I removed a number of characters then told FFS to. The following test shows the filename length of files FFS said were too long to process. Here's a good game - guess the FFS filename limit: The function has some very odd behaviour.