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nietras 👾

In I am trying to recreate how for example Windows Explorer "Copy as path" will return a short (8.3) path for a very long path incl. on a network drive. Using I have tried using Win32 GetShortPathName but this does not work, what other ways are there?

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Martin Plante ☮️

@nietras By "very long path", you mean longer than MAX_PATH? Have to prepended "\\?\" in front of that path?

I did not know short paths supported UNC paths, to be honest.

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nietras 👾

@martinplante yeah, and prepending is not an option here. If Windows Explorer can do it, it is possible but calling NtQueryBasicFileInformation seems "excessive" and haven't figured out how yet...

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