Windows 10 and 2016 optionally support paths > 260 characters - do you?

[dbaps]

Windows 10 and 2016 optionally support path lengths over 260 characters with either a registry change or that same modification made in group policy. Windows Explorer, having to support many third-party tools, has not added support for this feature. Robocopy does support this feature. I think you must be a build greater than 1607 like 1711.

I've done some testing of this with other products. Some the ACL's get messed up. Some don't copy the files and/or folders over 260 characters.

Do you officially support this new Windows feature?

Here's an article on this change:

Stupid forum will not let me post a URL.

superuser.com/questions/1119883/windows-10-enable-ntfs-long-paths-policy-option-missing

[Zenju]

Long path support is not a new Windows feature, it's just that an additional way to activate long path support has been added in Windows 10. Currently there is no actual benefit that I am aware of for implementing over the already existing long path support that FreeFileSync has.