Add a warning about Windows path length limit

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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The ultimate collection of scripts for YouTube-DL

 Install [youtube-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) and ffmpeg

-Create a folder where you want your videos downloaded in a drive where you have Gigabytes/Terabytes of space available
+Create a folder where you want your videos downloaded in a drive where you have Gigabytes/Terabytes of space available (**Warning for Windows users**: try to keep a short path length like `C:\YouTube-DL` otherwise you will hit the Windows path length limit (255 characters) when downloading videos with long title, [See](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/23154) for more details)

 Put the folders `Arctive Scripts` and `Archive Scripts` of your OS in the created folder (Read the section named "[Archive and Active Scripts?](https://gitlab.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-YouTube-DL-Archivist-Scripts#archive-and-active-scripts)" to understand the differences)