{"id":3083,"date":"2011-10-19T20:26:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T09:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2011-10-19T20:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T09:26:54","slug":"deleting-files-and-folders-with-very-long-path-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/deleting-files-and-folders-with-very-long-path-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleting Files and Folders with Very Long Path Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for tonight.<\/p>\n<p>On the rare occasion, you might create a file that has a combined folder and filename path that is too long for the file system to address. In these situations, when you attempt to delete such files you&#8217;ll get errors stating that the filename is too long without any options to correct the problem.<\/p>\n<p>A simple solution to this is to map a network drive to a parent folder of the file(s) in question and then delete the files that way. By mapping a network drive to the folder you will hopefully shorten the path enough to be able to delete the offending files and\/or folders in a jiffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for tonight. On the rare occasion, you might create a file that has a combined folder and filename path that is too long for the file system to address. In these situations, when you attempt to delete such files you&#8217;ll get errors stating that the filename is too long without any &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/deleting-files-and-folders-with-very-long-path-names\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,151,18],"tags":[1718,1719,157],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","tag-filename","tag-path","tag-windows","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}