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Unfortunately, WinMerge's file or folder copy uses the Windows shell (IFileOperation), and I don't think you can probably use Directory Ops instead.

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That's unfortunate.
I was trying to merge files with long paths and the windows file explorer doesn't support long paths.....
Looks like i'll have to do the merging manually using directory opus then......

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@rp1231 that's just a registry key change away:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem]
"LongPathsEnabled"=dword:00000001

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@Grovkillen I have that enabled already but the explorer.exe doesn't support long file path copying and I still get that error.

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@rp1231 that's weird since I use it in my automation all the time. You mean you get the error when copying long paths outside WinMerge?

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@Grovkillen yep...

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