Just a quick tip I came across today after having a problem where I found a directory where some tool went nuts and kept on creating subdirectories recursively. Trying to delete this directory will give you an error – something like ‘Path is too long…’<\/p>\n
Lets say the path is something like d:\\directory1\\directory1\\directory1\\directory1…..\\directory1<\/p>\n
Windows Explorer and even Command prompt won’t allow you to delete d:\\dir1 (No not even right-click delete will work).<\/p>\n
A simple solution is to recursively go and rename all the directories to something much shorter so the overall length is less that the maximum (260 characters).<\/p>\n
Like this: rename d:\\directory1 0\u00a0 , rename d:\\0\\directory1 0 etc.<\/p>\n
The end result should be like this: d:\\0\\0\\0\\0… \\0<\/p>\n
Now you can simply delete it in Windows Explorer without any ‘Path Too long’ errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just a quick tip I came across today after having a problem where I found a directory where some tool went nuts and kept on creating subdirectories recursively. Trying to delete this directory will give you an error – something …<\/p>\n