
And of course, Windows Explorer can't do anything right now:Īt drive C (or any other drive), I create a new empty folder (name it whatever you want), then use the following command to copy the entire HomeDrives internal directory to the new address: Or here, I have 3 subdirectories with the same path structure as above. When used with the command / MIR, Robocopy will proceed to create a backup of the entire folder, the current file name on another partition, and when your root folder is empty - empty then the system The system will delete the current files and folders.Īs shown in the example image above, you can see in the game folder that has the directory, in which there are many other subdirectories, so the total number of characters appearing on the path has exceeded 260 characters, and leads As a result, it is impossible to delete, move, copy or rename those folders.How to use the Long Path Tool is quite simple, please see the video tutorial below:īut besides, do you know that there are still tools available from Microsoft that support this very well, that is Robocopy. That is the software support Long Path Tool, link download the latest version here. In the article below, will introduce to you a rare tool that can help us overcome this situation. However, not all ways to handle this situation.

Simply because PowerShell cannot support all files, the directory path is longer than 255 characters, even if the partition you are storing is in NTFS format.

