Reply 20 of 31, by DosFreak
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Hmm, I guess to people who aren't used to DOS and don't mind have filenames that are really long for their files or folders the 8.3 "limitation" would be frustrating.
Think about it....
"Wedding pictures taken 8-23-1954 with camera by brothers sisters aunts cousin the day after christmas"
or
"PICS\1954\Wedding"
Which is better.....while I could arrogantly say the second method is better most people are lazy and don't know how to organize their data.
This is only going to get worse as metadata takes over and people won't have any control on organization of their files. I think I remember an article where an MS dev stated that they are going to slowly over time get to a point where you won't have to worry about organizing your files and the OS will "just take care of it".
I shudder at the thought.....considering that it would be an MS OS that would be taking care of it....