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Originally Posted by Thomas Richter
The limit is actually 30 characters, and personally never run into a particular problem with 30 characters. Volume, assign and device names are still limited to 30 characters. The limit is actually per component, the maximum path lenth is actually 255 characters.
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Seems You never try to use any CD which used Joliet standard on Amiga.
It has over 60 signs limit, if I remember right.
Like mentioned meynaf it can crash some old programs, because only 30 bytes for names was reserved for file name.
Other old programs (not crashed) only readed max 30 signs.
And You can see something like this "file not found" or "cant load file".
MP3 files very often has very long file names, over 30 signs.
Then really -1 value as file length, can be only very small problem. If it can be problem.
Files greater than 2GB can be useful mostly for images (DVD, HD etc) or for movie (mostly uncompressed, light compressed etc).