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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 8, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter. 

Idea priority Urgent
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    THOMAS O'BRIEN
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    |     Aug 28, 2023

    The observation is controlled by Microsoft Windows.

    Microsoft recommends :

    The following article specifies how to opt-in for the processing of file names exceeding 260 characters. Hope this helps.

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

    Our testing shows error messages are created with the change in place.

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