Windows server 2003 and Windows XP – How to delete files when path is too long
Posted by Erica | Posted in Tools, Windows 2003, Windows XP | Posted on 09-07-2009
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I hate this one really…
Then path to file exceeds 255 symbols it becames corrupted and you can have very hard time to delete or rename it.
Ok, how to deal with this.
At this case you have three choices:
1. Dont use too long paths! Use short names for you folders and avoid naming folders this way:
“Very important documents for financial department that were copied from local storage at 20080607″
2. If you did already, you can try to follow path to file and try to rename some very long folder names to shorter one.
3. You can use third party software that will run on your Windows server 2003, Windows XP and even older machines to deal with these files.
One of really great and free utils is “DelinvFile”.
You can download it from here .