Prepending “\\?\” doesn't work for handling long paths

Question

I\'m trying to find a workaround for the Windows character limitation that doesn\'t allow a file to be copied if its name is >= 260 characters. According to this MSDN artic

Answer 1

To enable long path support you either need to be targetting .Net Framework 4.6.2 (or newer) or you need to tell your app that it can support long filenames. To do that, add this to your app.config:

<runtime>
  <AppContextSwitchOverrides value="Switch.System.IO.UseLegacyPathHandling=false;Switch.System.IO.BlockLongPaths=false" />
</runtime>

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