Use a period as a directory component in a path to represent the current directory, for example ". For more information, see Paths. Use two consecutive periods.. Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL. For more information, see Namespaces. Do not end a file or directory name with a space or a period. Although the underlying file system may support such names, the Windows shell and user interface does not.
However, it is acceptable to specify a period as the first character of a name. For example, ". When you create a long file name, Windows may also create a short 8.
This 8. Not all file systems follow the tilde substitution convention, and systems can be configured to disable 8. Therefore, do not make the assumption that the 8. To request 8. This is true even if a long file name contains extended characters, regardless of the code page that is active during a disk read or write operation. Files using long file names can be copied between NTFS file system partitions and Windows FAT file system partitions without losing any file name information.
In this case, the short file name is substituted if possible. The path to a specified file consists of one or more components , separated by a special character a backslash , with each component usually being a directory name or file name, but with some notable exceptions discussed below.
It is often critical to the system's interpretation of a path what the beginning, or prefix , of the path looks like. This prefix determines the namespace the path is using, and additionally what special characters are used in which position within the path, including the last character.
Each component of a path will also be constrained by the maximum length specified for a particular file system. In general, these rules fall into two categories: short and long. Note that directory names are stored by the file system as a special type of file, but naming rules for files also apply to directory names. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.
Timbo Timbo This is very lame, and helpful. Okay but how to have it include directory names? Trouble wasn't directly with the long names, nor even spaces though a pain, but worst is when international characters are present which simply hose my script taking this dir list as input.
Greatly helpful. Show 2 more comments. Tested on Windows 7 x Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Trisped Trisped 5, 2 2 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 53 53 bronze badges. A meticulous way to produce an utility for future use. I couldn't thank you enough for this solution. Calling such command anytime effortlessly is a bless. In case another noob comes across this clever solution: The script checks if the first parameter is empty.
InteropServices; using System. Text; using System. Text, shortPath, shortPath. Capacity ; textBox2. TextBox ; this. Label ; this. Button ; this. Point 69, 13 ; this. Size , 53 ; this. EventHandler this. We have 5 numbers in the directory name combinations plus the date and plus 3 more numbers.
In total it should be at least ,, combinations if we ignore the date. What do you think are the short names for this directory and file? Using short names this is pretty easy to guess. As expected I can read the SQL backup file from the first try:. There is a way to disable Windows 8. That should disable short names creation. You could just run command. Create this batch file:. Windows Command Prompt has some conventions for handling variables with spaces in their values that are somewhat hard to learn and understand, especially if you have a Unix background.
You can do. I found very handy way to solve short pathname of current directory or anything else if you have Powershell installed. The "short name" is really the old DOS 8. This is the easiest way I have used when dealing with files with spaces and this is accessible from file explorer too has all the same access privileges.
Alternatively, you could use this awesome little tool called PathCopyCopy. In a few clicks, you can get the long and short path of literally any folder from the contextual menu, e. I have installed node modules by running npm install on a boilerplate. While trying to delete those folders, windows does not allow us to delete them as path is too long to be able to handle.
After some of shallow research, I thought it would be right my own piece of code snippet to rename the folders from root to leaf so that it would throw any violation exception for this attempt as well. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more.
Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 3 months ago. Active 1 year, 11 months ago. Viewed k times. If it helps, I am using Windows 7. I can get access to any version since XP, if necessary. Improve this question.
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