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Old November 19th 19, 11:55 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jürgen Meyer
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Default W1909 64 bit / Problem with Search

After Update to 1909, I normally can change every file name without problems
as it was in the past.
However, if I use Search and if I then try to change the found file name, it
becomes strange.

I then can shorten the file name, but I can't rename the file.
I only get a System beep.

I have read that MS intended to change the search in 1909.
On the other hand, I read that MS has redrawn the feature only some days
before they distributed the update. They had found a problem in the routine.

So the question is:
Do I have a changed search on my machine or not?
If so, is there a fix out?

Juergen
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Old November 19th 19, 01:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default W1909 64 bit / Problem with Search

Jürgen Meyer wrote:
After Update to 1909, I normally can change every file name without problems
as it was in the past.
However, if I use Search and if I then try to change the found file name, it
becomes strange.

I then can shorten the file name, but I can't rename the file.
I only get a System beep.

I have read that MS intended to change the search in 1909.
On the other hand, I read that MS has redrawn the feature only some days
before they distributed the update. They had found a problem in the routine.

So the question is:
Do I have a changed search on my machine or not?
If so, is there a fix out?

Juergen


The search results format has a length limit.
A different limit than a regular File Explorer window (260 characters).
You might run into this when renaming MP3 files.

https://superuser.com/questions/4100...results-window

And the bug has been there since Windows 7.

I tried it, and I cannot lengthen an edited string past the
suggested limit in that article (perhaps 128 characters).
Whereas if I select "rename" and edit in File Explorer, I
can make the filename even longer.

If I make the filename short enough, I can change the name while
in the (Search result format) window. If I want to make the
filename even longer, I have to open the folder with the file
in it, and edit it there.

*******

By setting some registry key, the NTFS file system limit can be
modified to a path length of something like 64K. But if you
do that, any reparse point descents, will take longer to
resolve with "Path too long" - selecting that option could
have occasional side effects during file system traversal.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

I only mention this, in case you were a tester, and wanted to
see what happens when that option is enabled, and you wanted
to test editing in the (search result format) window. I don't
expect the result would change, because it's possible the
manifest doesn't have longPathAwaretrue/longPathAware.

The long path capability, is in the canonical Microsoft web page
on namespaces, but in older OSes, the capability never seemed to work.
The claim was, the capability was buried in the file system.
But code for presenting visual output for such abominations didn't exist.

If you wanted to rename a file with that feature turned on,
write some Perl code and do it there :-) That's where I did
some previous path length testing. Because Perl could get around
a bug in File Explorer (Perl could make a filename with a length,
that File Explorer refused to edit - but that bug was fixed
when Win10 came along).

Paul
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Old November 19th 19, 03:40 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jürgen Meyer
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Default W1909 64 bit / Problem with Search

Tnx for help.
Juergen
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Old November 19th 19, 08:40 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default W1909 64 bit / Problem with Search

Paul wrote:

Jürgen Meyer wrote:

After Update to 1909, I normally can change every file name without
problems as it was in the past. However, if I use Search and if I
then try to change the found file name, it becomes strange.

I then can shorten the file name, but I can't rename the file. I
only get a System beep.

I have read that MS intended to change the search in 1909. On the
other hand, I read that MS has redrawn the feature only some days
before they distributed the update. They had found a problem in the
routine.

So the question is:
Do I have a changed search on my machine or not?
If so, is there a fix out?


The search results format has a length limit.
A different limit than a regular File Explorer window (260 characters).
You might run into this when renaming MP3 files.

https://superuser.com/questions/4100...results-window

And the bug has been there since Windows 7.

I tried it, and I cannot lengthen an edited string past the
suggested limit in that article (perhaps 128 characters).
Whereas if I select "rename" and edit in File Explorer, I
can make the filename even longer.

If I make the filename short enough, I can change the name while
in the (Search result format) window. If I want to make the
filename even longer, I have to open the folder with the file
in it, and edit it there.


Probably not a problem in voidtools' [Search] Everything tool.

https://www.voidtools.com/

No, not a fix to Microsoft's search function, but the always solution to
Windows by going to 3rd party software.
 




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