{"id":33563,"date":"2005-10-28T09:59:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T09:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/10\/28\/even-in-the-enlightened-year-of-2005-we-have-programs-that-dont-handle-long-file-names\/"},"modified":"2005-10-28T09:59:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T09:59:30","slug":"even-in-the-enlightened-year-of-2005-we-have-programs-that-dont-handle-long-file-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051028-30\/?p=33563\/","title":{"rendered":"Even in the enlightened year of 2005, we have programs that don&#8217;t handle long file names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> When I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tims\/\">Tim Sneath<\/a>&#8216;s description of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tims\/archive\/2005\/09\/28\/474977.aspx\"> the root cause for all the Windows Vista product key problems<\/a>, I was amazed that the reason was something my readers tend to go completely ballistic over: Long file names. <\/p>\n<p> It so happens that one of the ISO mounting tools that people were using for installing Windows Vista doesn&#8217;t support long file names! (At least not by default.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw Tim Sneath&#8216;s description of the root cause for all the Windows Vista product key problems, I was amazed that the reason was something my readers tend to go completely ballistic over: Long file names. It so happens that one of the ISO mounting tools that people were using for installing Windows Vista [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-33563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When I saw Tim Sneath&#8216;s description of the root cause for all the Windows Vista product key problems, I was amazed that the reason was something my readers tend to go completely ballistic over: Long file names. It so happens that one of the ISO mounting tools that people were using for installing Windows Vista [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}