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Questions - long-path

How to enable "Long Path Aware" behavior for setting the current directory in a C++ windows console app

In a C++ console application on windows, i'm trying to break the MAX_PATH restriction for the SetCurrentDirectoryW function. There are many similar questions already asked but none got a usable answer...
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ridilculous

c++

windows

filesystems

c++17

long-path

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Answers: 1

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The manifest applies to your application, it allows you to opt in to long path support. However, long path support must also be enabled system wide. This is the group policy "Computer Configurati...
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Anders

How to properly handle windows paths with the long path prefix with std::filesystem::path

std::filesystem::path doesn't seem to be aware of the windows long path magic prefix. Is this per design or is there a mode/flag/compiler switch/3rd party library which can be used? f.e. for a path l...
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ridilculous

c++

windows

c++17

std-filesystem

long-path

Votes: 0

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As mentioned in the comments above, the source code of the Microsoft STL shows that the current behavior is intentional for UNC (Uniform Naming Convention) paths and that there is no "magic compi...
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Sedenion

Long path support in Filesystem watcher control

In our client application implemented in C# with .Net framework 4.8 (OS: Windows 10), we are using file system watcher control to detect folder's events. To support a long path we have tried with \\?\...
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James

c#

filesystemwatcher

.net-4.8

long-path

Votes: 0

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