There are some files on my Windows 10 machine that are in folders that pushes them close to the Windows MAX_PATH limit. Putting those files/folders onto a file share that starts //nexus/misc/backups/beast pushes them over the limit.
What I find particularly disturbing, any time I see a program that fails badly when it hits the max path issue, is...
The people who run into max path issues the most are coders. Development file repositories can get surprisingly deep at times, and I have yet to meet a code repository that hasn't hit this issue at least once or twice. This means that, in many cases, the coders themselves who are writing these tools are hitting this problem *as they develop the tool* and they're not *doing anything about it*.
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