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Windows 7 deleting folder with long pathname

Windows 7 is unable to delete a file from a path longer then 255 symbols.

And this is ridiculous....What if I've got thousands of them? Should i move them one-by-one as those "solutions" suggest?

 

Since there are 3rd party tools that are able to do this, this is perfectly possible...

 

The question is:

Why do we need this limitation ?

I can understand the limitation to create too long paths, but to delete - why?

 

I've looked through couple topics like this:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/00493939-079c-481b-9999-a82ac680dcab

and found no answer...

 


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