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On 7/1/2016 at 5:40 PM, IAmLamp said:

Just wondering if there would be something out there that could help bypass or get around the Windows file limitations, I need to get my data over to a different drive. I was thinking something like temporary use of Linux, but I'm not sure if that would work. 

Well some of the limitations are on Windows, and some are NTFS itself.  For example, NTFS supports having things like a colon in the file name, but try opening a file like that on Windows and it'll throw a fit.  The lack of case-sensitivity, however, is actually a limitation of NTFS itself from what I've been able to tell.  I'm not sure about all of the things we identified (path length limitations, support for other, even stranger characters, etc.) but the easiest way to get around the limitations would be to use Linux to move all your files onto a filesystem that supports everything you need, and then continue to use it just with Linux.

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On 7/1/2016 at 5:40 PM, IAmLamp said:

Just wondering if there would be something out there that could help bypass or get around the Windows file limitations, I need to get my data over to a different drive. I was thinking something like temporary use of Linux, but I'm not sure if that would work. 

Well some of the limitations are on Windows, and some are NTFS itself.  For example, NTFS supports having things like a colon in the file name, but try opening a file like that on Windows and it'll throw a fit.  The lack of case-sensitivity, however, is actually a limitation of NTFS itself from what I've been able to tell.  I'm not sure about all of the things we identified (path length limitations, support for other, even stranger characters, etc.) but the easiest way to get around the limitations would be to use Linux to move all your files onto a filesystem that supports everything you need, and then continue to use it just with Linux.

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