I have a folder of MP3s, some of which date back to 1999, just a few years after the format was popularised. Most of them have utterly terrible names (think RIDEONAM.MP3). I think at this point they might even survive the heat death of the universe. And they’ll still be terribly-organised.
Did you know that if you have more than nine Weird Al songs, it truncates to the first two characters, then an undocumented four-character hash, then ~1?
Just Microsoft things.
I thought they removed 8.3 file names a while back though?
they did. that hasn’t been a thing since like dos or something.
No they’re still there in NTFS. It’s definitely still a thing, although automatic creation of 8.4 file names can be disabled.