problem deleting file with long name

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I occasionally unzip files and have to rename the folder to a single letter before trying to delete it. The reason is that the full path & file name is too long. Is there a registry setting or anything that I can do to have Windows ignore the warning and just delete the file?

"Cannot delete.... The file name you specified is not valid or too long. Specify a different file name."

boost also did not delete the file when I tried using it, but maybe I had a syntax error?

Posted 27-Jan-11 14:56pm

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Yusuf · Answer 1 · 2011-01-27T15:37:00

That was a common problem in the dinosaur age. Starting Win2K (?) the path+file length have been increased to 32K. Unless you have very deep directory structure you should never run to this issue. About 10 years back we did a testing to see how deep we can go using 3 char folder names and we went more than 100 folders deep.

See here for Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces[^]

Since you are dealing with zipped files, you issue may be with file names. Check for the file you are trying to delete. Does it have any extension? how are you trying to delete it?

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