> > I've filed this under [Humor] because files and paths generally get
> > this long because of user disorganisation.
>
> Long paths result from uberorganisation in my case.
>
> Note that Plex media system generates also thousands of thumbnails with
> very long name or path
Yes, I should have noted the possibility of long paths being caused by high levels of organisation. However I've noticed that the problem here is often caused by what appears to be organisation, but on inspection is really a mess. People copy entire branches of files into lower levels of the same branch, things like that. Then they can't find it, so they copy it all again to another part.