>While skimming those blogs, I got the impression that if you want complete, seamless support for long file names/paths, it ain't gonna happen, up to and including Win7/Server 2008. Win8/Server 2012, I don't know. I haven't heard anything about that limit being lifted; if it were, my guess is a *lot* of 3rd-party software would break upon hitting a file/path over 260 chars.
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>The blog entries do show some workarounds for common use cases. If you want to do something else, you're on your own e.g. zipping, you'd need to test any utility to use to check for long file/path support.

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