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2024-02-11, 04:49 PM
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Torrent data maximum path length is 247 characters
Effective immediately, I and the Moderators will be pulling any torrents that exceed 247 characters in the path length.
Why is this necessary? Windows maximum path length is 260 characters. This including any slashes, colon, folder names, and drive letter. There are several torrents here that exceed this. Anyone using a Windows OS, bittorrent program, or media player not supporting >260 characters will not be able to download and/or playback your files. Folks seeding from older OSes will not be able to seed these. For privacy reasons, folks sometimes choose Windows 7 to seed from as it can be made free of Microsoft spyware updates (unlike Windows 10 or newer). Why 247 characters? D:\Downloads\ That's 13 characters. 260 minus 13 equals 247. To make your post compliant, often just your .txt file needs to be renamed to info.txt. No members have liked this post.
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2024-02-11, 06:06 PM
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Re: Torrent data maximum path length is 247 characters
I experienced this many years ago after a friend burned some data dvds for me with extremely long, descriptive folder titles. The disc burned ok, but then I could never read the contents of the folders.
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2024-02-11, 06:25 PM
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Re: Torrent data maximum path length is 247 characters
Will the posters of torrents that are being deleted get a heads up that their torrents are faulty and being pulled, so they can correct the problem and re-share them as compliant? That would be helpful, rather than just having some stuff disappear with no idea that there was a problem (other than this announcement...)... ?
I almost think I might be guilty of this somewhere along the way... 
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2024-02-15, 12:41 AM
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Re: Torrent data maximum path length is 247 characters
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