A Windows utility for finding and shortening long file paths. Download from Releases
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SMB network share support. Variable DPI support.
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Filtering by any given path length. The legacy Windows max path length is 259 characters.
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File and folder renaming.
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Favoriting folders.
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This app is portable. Run it in the folder.
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Usage is mostly self-explanatory. Click the ? button in the top right or view Usage.md for more info.
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Windows 10 or 11. Specifically the Windows 10 Creator's Update which brought high-DPI support to Winforms apps.
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Dependencies: None. The app runs on .NET Framework 4.8.
I created this app because I wanted a way to find and shorten long file paths (259+ characters) with minimum friction. The only existing app I could find tailored to this very specific use case was a paid app. So here we are. This app is not vibe-coded. But I did use LLM help (Claude Sonnet mostly) for creating the message box class, the markdown-to-rich-text converter, Winforms custom render code, and some other small functions.