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Windows 10 "Enable NTFS long paths policy" option missing
For some time, Microsoft has supported an option to remove the limit of 260 symbols for NTFS file name length.
The web is full of articles, describing what should be done.
Hit the Windows key, type ...
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How does OneDrive make its folder not functional for older Windows versions?
After the Fall 2017 Creators Update for Windows 10 OneDrive folder can not be accessed using prior Windows versions. This oddity is described at the official site:
If you have installed the Fall ...
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Cannot mount NTFS partitions because of Windows 10?
I have a multi-boot computer, one of the partitions is taken by Windows 10 technical preview and another one is also ntfs.
Booting in an Ubuntu-eOS system I get this errors when trying to mount these ...
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What do new Windows 8/10 attributes mean: No scrub file (X), Integrity (V), Pinned (P), Unpinned (U)
I just opened help for ATTRIB command on Windows 10.0.15063, and found out that there are new attributes I didn't know about.
>attrib /?
Displays or changes file attributes.
ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A |...
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How do I format an internal hard drive to exFAT in Windows 10?
I have an internal hard drive that I use as storage where I dump the stuff I need backed up. I want to format it to exFAT instead of NTFS so that it doesn't have to deal with permissions. The problem ...
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NTFS external hard drive formatted on Linux is not recognized by Windows
I fully formatted a hard drive in NTFS on Linux from a completely empty (zeroed) drive and it is not recognized by Windows 10. It is not listed in the Windows File Explorer nor with the fsutil fsinfo ...
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Can I share folders on a LAN using NTFS alone?
I've run several searches, here, here and here including many replies on SE to try and address a simple question:
In a Windows NTFS only environment, if I wanted to use NTFS alone to share folders on ...
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Cannot Eject USB Drive With NTFS and Bitlocker
I have an external HDD (WD My Passport Ultra) formatted with NTFS and encrypted with Bitlocker (Windows 10). After plugging in the drive, I can no longer remove the drive using "Eject". The error is "...
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how to set automatic NTFS LZX compression on new files
I know it is possible to compress files on the commandline with LZX:
COMPACT /C /S:E:\Backup /EXE:LZX
But i would like to do that BEFORE the files gets written on the disk.
If i enable compression ...
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Can't delete folder (in Windows 10) that contains special character [duplicate]
I have run into something that looks like a bug in Windows.
I have extracted a RAR archive onto my PC and the extracted folders cannot be deleted by any means!
My OS's language is English with some ...
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Manually trimming unused NTFS SSD blocks in windows after imaging drive
I upgraded my SSD by dd'ing the old drive to a new drive under Linux. This has the side effect of also copying "empty space."
Is there a way to ask Windows to trim the NTFS unused blocks? ...
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Alternate Data Stream "Win32App_1" attached to a large number of folders
My Windows 10 machine has a large number of NTFS Alternate Data Streams named Win32App_1 attached to various folders throughout the system drive. NoVirusThanks' Stream Detector detects them as being ...
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What is the difference between a drive and a volume in NTFS?
I apologize if this is too simple a question, but I couldn't find the answer (or perhaps just couldn't understand the answer) by a bit of googling.
What is the difference between a drive (e.g. C: ...
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After resizing NTFS partition, Windows 10 no longer boots
My computer is configured for dual-booting via Grub. I run Windows 10 and Ubuntu 17.10.
Earlier today I was working in Ubuntu and I ran out of space on my ext4 partition. Wanting to make it larger, I ...
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Message "file too large for recycle bin" on any file on external HDD Win 10
On my external only-files (no Windows) NTFS 2TB HDD Win 10 raises a "file too large for recycle bin" message on any file I delete.
I formatted the HDD with the onboard Windows partition tool and the ...
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