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The thing that bothers me the most about using a microsoft account is that your user folder is named by truncating your email to five characters. Yes you read t
by sixothree 10y ago
The thing that bothers me the most about using a microsoft account is that your user folder is named by truncating your email to five characters. Yes you read that correctly. The name of your user folder under C:\Users\ will be no more than five characters long. Of course if you don't use a microsoft account it will be longer.
- cptskippy 10y agoAre you saying that Microsoft offers no collision protection in situations where two user's email have the same first 5 characters? If not then what is the problem?
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 10y agoMaybe [s]he complaints that the username is arbitrarily truncated.
- cptskippy 10y agoBut why is that a problem? That isn't the name used to login and would only be visible if you navigated the file system via console or went into c:\users\. File explorer abstracts that folder name away and in scripts it should be referenced via the environment variable. So it shouldn't actually be an issue.
- sixothree 10y agoI do both of those things on a daily basis. And when I have to type it someplace that doesn't have tab completion I don't want to have to count the letters in my own name. It should just be my name. In 2017 why is seven characters too many? When your first name is truncated it just looks wrong and arbitrary. I get sick of seeing C:\Users\Matth when I would rather see C:\Users\Matthew.