Filename too long; cannot delete project folder

[peterennis]

C:\ae\HEALTH1.BIZ\src\MyHealth.Web\NODE_M1\GULP-S2\NODE_M1\NODE-S1\NODE_M1\CROSS-1\NODE_M1\SPAWN-1\NODE_M1\TRY-TH1\NODE_M1\THREAD1\NODE_M1\NODE-P1\NODE_M1\npmlog\NODE_M1\gauge\NODE_M1\lodash.pad\NODE_M1\LODASH1._CR\NODE_M~1\lodash.repeat\index.js

Windows 10. File structure is too deep. I have to delete remnants manually.

[peterennis]

Looks like I will have to research a solution to delete the files or manually shorten all folder names. Not user friendly :(

[peterennis]

Rename as follows and the folder can be deleted:
C:\ae\HealthClinic.biz\src\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\z\npmlog\z\z\z\lodash.pad\z\z\z\lodash.repeat\index.js

[srivatsamarichi]

@ Peterennis-Instead of renaming, use the below link. It saves lot of time and deletes wiithin few seconds. It makes use of something called as Robocopy, i faced the same thing and used. It worked awesome for me.

http://clintboessen.blogspot.in/2014/05/how-to-delete-files-which-exceed-255.html

Thanks,
Srivatsa

[peterennis]

@srivatsamarichi - Thanks for that. I have 7-zip file manager and like that shift-del solution. Next best is robocopy /PURGE and I am wary of robocopy /MIR having previously inadvertently deleted a bunch of files when the destination did not exist!

[srivatsamarichi]

Hope it worked fine for you.

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On Sat, 20 Feb, 2016 at 10:37 am, [email protected] wrote:
@srivatsamarichi - Thanks for that. I have 7-zip file manager and like that shift-del solution. Next best is robocopy /PURGE and I am wary of robocopy /MIR having previously inadvertently deleted a bunch of files when the destination did not exist!

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[kamila1011]

I am getting this same issue and its very difficult to solve this problem without any third party app, i guess the best thing to do is to use a third party app like Long Path Tool. Just download it and use it to solve this issue. I hope this would help.

[leonmeijer]

Hopefully this won't be needed anymore with the upcoming Windows 10 anniversery edition. The next major release will have long path support

[ibonilm]

The issue is also solved if you update your local environment to use npm 3

[srivatsamarichi]

I believe had shared the link in order to delete the folder structure in the same post. That works fine and will completely clean the folders and the corresponding files.

Thanks,
Srivatsa

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On Mon, 13 Jun, 2016 at 2:59 pm, Ibon [email protected] wrote:
The issue is also solved if you update your local environment to use npm 3

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[rroman81]

npm install -g rimraf
rimraf ./<path to the folder strucutre>