Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

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Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades
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You can also enable long paths in w10/11 (30,000+ characters). Instructions are here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=registry

That would unfortunately require me to edit GPO I have non control over. I could temporarily knock it out with regedit but I don't know if it'd be tossed next gpupdate, I'd have to check.

Bummer. The '\?' prefix will work regardless of registry setting, though it's a pain to remember each time.