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> I guess the main thing is that it's one of those 'who cares' problems. The only time I've ever seen this limitation being complained about, it's by people who've had problems with npm.

If you work on the sysadmin side of things, this comes up almost every time with directories on network shares. Explorer, cmd and PowerShell can't handle them and you need to resort to using robocopy or 3rd party tools like FastCopy. To delete stuff you often have to resort to hacks like robocopy mirroring an empty directory into the path before deleting it.



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