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How to duplicate issue "Copy failure involving long paths after compare operation" which affects all versions of WinMerge:
(1) Enable long path support in Windows as follows:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"LongPathsEnabled"=dword:00000001
;"LongPathsEnabled"=dword:00000000
(2) Create a filename or filepath exceeding 260 characters, for example a text file named:
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901.txt
This must be done via Windows Powershell since the GUI does not support long paths.
(3) Do a file compare between a local drive and a network drive.
The long-named text file will show up in the discrepancies window.
(4) Right-click the file and select to copy it from Left to Right.
The operation fails, likely because WinMerge is calling the deprecated Windows API instead of the currently supported version.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
How to duplicate issue "Copy failure involving long paths after compare operation" which affects all versions of WinMerge:
(1) Enable long path support in Windows as follows:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"LongPathsEnabled"=dword:00000001
;"LongPathsEnabled"=dword:00000000
(2) Create a filename or filepath exceeding 260 characters, for example a text file named:
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901.txt
This must be done via Windows Powershell since the GUI does not support long paths.
(3) Do a file compare between a local drive and a network drive.
The long-named text file will show up in the discrepancies window.
(4) Right-click the file and select to copy it from Left to Right.
The operation fails, likely because WinMerge is calling the deprecated Windows API instead of the currently supported version.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: