• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just helped someone delete a file that they couldn’t delete in Windows by booting into a Linux live USB, mounting their HD there and deleting it in Linux.

    I think it was due to the filename containing special characters or even maybe that it was over 255 characters long. How is it 2023 and Windows still has problems like this?

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        1 year ago

        The person was running Windows 11. I sent a detailed article about it to them as well (with some thousands of words), but in the end they even found it easier to just boot into Linux and delete it.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah. I think the issue is you sent them an article with thousands of words. If I saw that I would look for a different solution.

          How did you even find an article with so many words? It is a simpleish fix to do.

    • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      Yup, I have a few folders of classical music on an old hard drive that I can’t delete in Windows because the name is too long. I just haven’t bothered connecting them to Linux yet.

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        1 year ago

        I once naively used Windows file copy utility to transfer my huge MP3 library to an external hard drive and later lost the originals. I came to find out it silently failed to copy any songs containing certain nonalphanumeric characters. To this day I’m still traumatized when I try to locate some song and find it’s not there. Burn in hell Windows.