ED#179 : Why It's Really Time To Ditch (And Strip) The Short Filename

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  1. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    It's been 20 years since Microsoft first introduced the long filename (LFN) in Windows NT 3.5, but NTFS continues to generate a short filename for every file you write today. This reduces the filesystem performance and introduces additional writes that are unnecessary unless you are using a very old application that can only understand the old 8.3 short filename format.

    Unless you are using old software from when Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock first broke out into stardom in Speed, you should disable the automatic generation of the 8.3 short filename. Doing so will give a kick to the NTFS file system's performance, and if you are using an SSD, help maintain its performance and lifespan.

    There are two ways to do this...

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    Link : ED#179 : Why It's Really Time To Ditch The Short Filename
     
  2. atwl77

    atwl77 Just Started

    Hmm... so in general this only disables the current setting, but any existing short file names will still exist until that file has been updated/written to?
     
  3. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Good point!

    Yes, disabling it will not remove existing short file names.

    I will update the article with two possible methods to do so.
     
  4. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    ED#179 : Why It's Really Time To Ditch (And Strip) The Short Filename Rev. 2.0

    It's been 20 years since Microsoft first introduced the long filename (LFN) in Windows NT 3.5, but NTFS continues to generate a short filename for every file you write today. This reduces the filesystem performance and introduces additional writes that are unnecessary unless you are using a very old application that can only understand the old 8.3 short filename format.

    Unless you are using old software from when Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock first broke out into stardom in Speed, you should disable the automatic generation of the 8.3 short filename. Doing so will give a kick to the NTFS file system's performance, and if you are using an SSD, help maintain its performance and lifespan.

    In this major update, learn how to strip the short filenames from your system to benefit from 10x better file system performance!

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    Link : ED#179 : Why It's Really Time To Ditch (And Strip) The Short Filename Rev. 2.0
     
  5. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    ED#179 : Why It's Really Time To Ditch (And Strip) The Short Filename Rev. 2.1

    It's been 20 years since Microsoft first introduced the long filename (LFN) in Windows NT 3.5, but NTFS continues to generate a short filename for every file you write today. This reduces the filesystem performance and introduces additional writes that are unnecessary.

    Unless you are using old software from when Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock first broke out into stardom in Speed, you should disable the automatic generation of the 8.3 short filename. Doing so will give a kick to the NTFS file system's performance, and if you are using an SSD, help maintain its performance and lifespan.

    In this update, we added a warning on why some folders may cause failure to strip short file names, and how to circumvent the problem.

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    Link : ED#179 : Why It's Really Time To Ditch (And Strip) The Short Filename Rev. 2.1
     

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