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@@ -314,13 +314,13 @@ and a 3 letter hash of the filename. For example, `LONG FILE NAME.TXT` will become `LONG~20B.TXT`. These behave like normal files otherwise. The use of hashes allow the short file names to be consistent between reboots -of the guest OS, even if the host OS does not have support to store long these +of the guest OS, even if the host OS does not have support to persist these short file names. If your host OS does have support for storing persistent -short file names and want to use those instead of the autogenerated ones, +short file names and you want to use those instead of the autogenerated ones, consider using the option `/host` when mounting a shared folder. If you have a directory with lots of similarly names files, it may help to reduce -the chances of a hash collision by increase the number of letters dedicated to the -hash portion of the short file names. For that, use the `/hash <n>` option. +the chances of a hash collision by increasing the number of digits dedicated to the +hash portion of short file names. For that, use the `/hash <n>` option. In addition, there is support for translation of extended characters from the host filesystem into the guest DOS' codepage. |