Windows Vista User, About to Smash Computer

>>61975886
what the fuck have you been doing that needs more than 260 character long filenames? your problem is almost weirder than the fact that you are still on Windows Vista

>>61975886
i've never seen a male do this, even the effeminate outspoken ones

>>61975946
limewire/kazaa filenames

>What is the best solution to this problem?
use whatever scripting is available on windows to rename the files automagically, then installing a non-autistic operating system

have you tried booting in a linux live usb session and doing the transferring on there?

>>61975946
I'm very organized.
>>61975986
I'm trying to change me OS this is just one last hurdle.

Is there any good software that meets my description above that you know of? I can't just change 203 files scattered randomly around my library around manually, I need something convenient.

>>61976025
No, but I think I could format a USB. What type of Linux do you recommend/link?I'll make that a plan B for now.

Prefix your paths with \\?\, it enables extended paths (32,767 characters).

copy \\?\C:\source \\?\D:\destination

For example.

>>61976025
>>61976090
>writing to NTFS partitions from anything other than Windows
Don't do this.

>>61976090
I'd recommend Bunsen:
https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html

>>61976135
Sick trick

>>61976183
I do this, is it really that bad?

>>61976183
He's not booting from the partition, he'd be mounting an additional USB and running cp.
What's the problem?

>>61975886
not sure about the long file name thing, but why use an external drive? if both puters are working why not just transfer over the local network? also, have a look at bittorrentsync

>>61975986
>automagically

fucking end it all

>>61976208
Microsoft does everything they can to make using non-Microsoft products a challenge. This includes NTFS. If it is modified by non-windows, something will be changed that it doesn't like, and will accumulate problems over time until the point where Windows wants to run checkdisk repair before every boot.

>>61976292
unprovable horseshit

>>61976208
NTFS-3G is very good these days but it has still been known to cause data corruption on occasion. As a general rule of thumb you should always treat NTFS partitions as read-only unless you're in Windows, especially if they contain important data. In OP's case nothing too bad would happen if something went wrong but it's a good idea to not get into the habit of using Linux to write to NTFS partitions.

I've got Windows 10, and I'm about to uninstall and just roll straight Debian or Elementary.

These auto updates and pop ups make me want to kill my computer and myself in a pointless murder suicide.

>>61976382
There is literally zero reason why someone running a consumer version of Windows cannot install updates once a month.

>>61976382
I use elementary it's pretty comfy

>>61976443
there is literally no reaso I should have to restart to update, let alone restart multiple times. linux/mac/bsd can all implement updates in place

>>61976895
well NT isnt UNIX

>>61976907
then maybe it's about time ms switched colonels

>>61976925
they tried

>>61976249
>this

or just make a private torrent

>>61976895
That's not necessarily true, I've had cases where Yum has fucked something and I've needed to reboot for everything to initialize correctly. Rare, but possible.

Install a Linux of your choice (Mint) to a USB stick, live boot, copy data.