Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
-- 5-4-3-2-1-bang from this thread
Those long path limits are so annoying.
I can't help since I switched to Linux, but yeah those long path limits man. Oh and maybe Explorer ++ works IDK. I used it for a bit because the native File Explorer stopped working for a few months. Might be worth a shot.
Replying for prosperity sake:
I tried several alternatives to windows Microsoft File Explorer including Explorer++ The integration is not seamless.
The long path limit is too low just 266 or 254 or soemthing
Lastly, I am cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Is this data ON your Windows computer, or are you mounting it from a NAS?
If it's on a NAS you can sometimes get around this by having more mounts further up the tree.
Apparently, there is still nothing, except Linux.
But I am stuck on windows, and my brain can't handle dual boot stuff.
I constantly reach the limit, and I have MCI (memory issues) ans I need long path.
I wish if folders in windows could have like a metadata tags like description and search tags and I could view the description by tool tips
And years ago.
I found a solution BUT it wasn't robust enough.
Lots of options on Linux.
Maybe as a workaround you could add loose files with the rest of the filename and metadata into the folder, if you're only dealing with long folder names?
What are loose files?
Files in the folder containing the rest of the data. Like cutting the folder name in half and having the rest of it as the filename of a .txt file inside it.