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So the doohickey uses the old Windows 95 file scheme? Where your could "name" your file something long but in reality it made an 8.3 name for the file in the background?
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I don't think so. This seems to all be on my PC end, and I'm on Win11.
I need to investigate this more today before I can be sure about any of this. I've replicated the problem a couple of times but not methodically.
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How long filenames are we talking about?
More than 260 characters?
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Oh gosh no. Maybe 20 characters, with spaces. Stuff like "Bionic Commando (U).nes"
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Maybe the empty spaces?
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Shoot. Work distracted me from troubleshooting what the root issue was and forgot all about it. I should dig into that. 
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hope you find it. 
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For what it's worth, I've seen FAT32 implementations in the wild that didn't handle space characters in filenames correctly or didn't like complete file paths longer than a value much less than Windows' 260 characters.
For example, the sound system in my car let you plug a FAT32 Flash drive in and it would play any MP3's it found. There were some limitations however. You could only have 99 files per folder, and 99 folders hanging from the root. File path length had to be <16 characters.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Any software that has ever been in contact with *nix or *nix developers, even if "ported" to other OSes, is likely to have problems with spaces in filenames. Also be prepared for non-*nix path separators and non-7bitASCII being a potential source of trouble. Even after "porting", expect issues with letter casing.
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line breaks, return carriage and end of file can give / have given some headaches too
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Bionic Commando???
That was a great game!
I had to hack my C64 version to give myself 255 lives to beat it!
Or else I found the logic that subtracted a life and changed it to NOOPs.
A little fuzzy now, but I was able to finish it.
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Win95? 8.3 format goes back a loooong time before windows was dreamed of.
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 Good point ... Somehow, I doubt the sanity of the inventor of this ...
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I want video.
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I only have one question...WHY?
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Props for the RickRoll.
I know people who might actually buy that.
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Is that a dog or a rabbit? 
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It's a cross-breed rabdog 
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I've been learning React.
It's quite amazing actually.
I wanted to know what the impact of my simple Project* object would be if there were a lot of them.
Questions I Had
1. What If I Added 10,000 div nodes to my page?
2. What if I added 10,000 choices to a drop list (html select tag - option values)?
2a. Additionally, what if I added each Project object (serialized to string) as the value on the select tag option?
It performs amazingly well.
Bonus Info
Here's how you add a value to a drop list (select tag) in HTML / JavaScript:
let projectList = document.querySelector("#projectList");
projectList.append(new Option(p.name, value, false, false));
Add Object As Value
But, if you're an OOP person and you want to use a specific object whenever an item is selected int he drop list then you want to store the object as the value. That way, when the user selects the item you have the original object.
Since value expects a string you will need to do this:
projectList.append(new Option(p.name, JSON.stringify(p), false, false));
Now when the user selects an item in the drop list you simply parse the thing back to your target object.
The changehandler is my method which is fired when user selects a new value from drop list.
changeHandler(e) {
let item = JSON.parse(e.target.value);
console.log(`item.name: ${item.name}`);
}
But How Does It Perform With 10,000 Serialized Objects?
It's amazing. Takes < 1 second for drop list to respond.
Pics or it didn't happen.  See snapshot here[^].
*Project Class
export class Project {
constructor(name) {
this.id = uuidv4();
this.ownerId = localUser;
this.name = name || '';
this.created = new Date();
}
}
File it under weird, but it is also quite wonderful. 
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But as we keep telling people in QA, a list of 10_000 items isn't much use to the user.
Until we get proper support for the selectmenu[^] element, you'd probably want to use a plugin like Select2[^] to add a search to your list.
But at that point, you might be better to use something closer to an "auto-complete" approach, and load the matching items on demand.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thanks for the info on SelectMenu I will check it out. 
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I would suggest if you are liking React - make use of:
TypeScript - it's Javascript with strong typing and makes Javasript so much better to work with.
Redux - well worth doing the main Redux tutorial first and consider using it as it makes handling state much easier.
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