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Does TI 2016 have a file name length limit ????

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Recently I have had a number of failures backing up my C: Drive... I find that I have a number of files which are part of an MS office updatye where the total path length is 268 characters. I know from past axperience path lengths above 260 caused problems with earlier versions of windows so a qouple of questions...

Does TI 2016 have a file name length limit ????

Does anyone know the max path length in windows 10 X64 ???

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I believe it's still the Windows limitation of 260 characters.  There has to be compatibility between different OS versions or you wouldn't be able see files on a portable drive created in Windows 10, that was attached to a Windows 7 system, etc. 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs…

Maximum Path Length Limitation

In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the following paragraphs), the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters. A local path is structured in the following order: drive letter, colon, backslash, name components separated by backslashes, and a terminating null character. For example, the maximum path on drive D is "D:\some 256-character path string<NUL>" where "<NUL>" represents the invisible terminating null character for the current system codepage. (The characters < > are used here for visual clarity and cannot be part of a valid path string.)