NTFS doesn't have this limit, and it can hold much longer paths. You may experience this issue if you create a share at some point in your folder structure that's already fairly deep, and then create a deep structure below that point by using the share. Some tools that operate locally on the folder tree may not be able to traverse the whole tree starting from the root. You may have to use these tools in a special way so that they can traverse the share.
Typically, you can manage files by using the software that creates them. You can typically delete files that are created on a share by using the same share.
If the file name includes a reserved name in the Win32 name space, such as lpt1, you can't delete the file. To resolve this issue, use a non-Win32 program to rename the file. You can use a POSIX tool or any other tool that uses the appropriate internal syntax to use the file. Additionally, you can use some built-in commands to bypass the typical Win32 reserved name checks if you use a particular syntax to specify the path of the file. If you open a handle to a file by using the typical Win32 CreateFile mechanism, certain file names are reserved for old-style DOS devices.
For backward compatibility, these file names aren't permitted, and they can't be created by using typical Win32 file calls. This issue isn't a limitation of NTFS. You can't delete a file if the file name includes an invalid name. For example, the file name has a trailing space or a trailing period, or the file name is made up of a space only. To resolve this issue, use a tool that uses the appropriate internal syntax to delete the file.
Here's an example:. The cause of this issue is similar to Cause 4. If you use typical Win32 syntax to open a file that has trailing spaces or trailing periods in its name, the trailing spaces or periods are stripped before the actual file is opened. For example, you have two files in the same folder named AFile.
If you try to open the second file by using standard Win32 calls, you open the first file instead. Similarly, if you have a file whose name is just a space character and you try to open it by using standard Win32 calls, you open the file's parent folder instead. In this situation, if you try to change security settings on these files, you either may not be able to do so, or you may unexpectedly change the settings on different files. If this behavior occurs, you may think that you have permission to a file that actually has a restrictive ACL.
Sometimes, you may experience combinations of these causes. It can make the procedure to delete a file more complex. For example, if you log on as the computer's administrator, you may experience a combination of Cause 1 you don't have permissions to delete a file and Cause 5 the file name contains a trailing character that causes file access to be redirected to a different or nonexistent file , and you can't delete the file.
Need to delete or remove 2 folders and keep 2 folder with their content. Need command for this. Any help will be appreciated.
I want to thank you very much for the help on deleting these files. I ended up using the CMD method, but it worked perfectly. Again, thank you!!!! Thank you! This did the trick hoping. I tried the command, but someone has created the directory repeatedly and now I can not removed the base directory. ZIP — The file name is too long. ZIP is too long. Just cd further down and delete the individual files until you can delete the whole directory. Really this blog keeps changing my life.
So much of junk non-empty folders in my computer. Thanks a lot. Under W10 this does not work. Rmdir : Delete directory from command line by Srini. Delete folder from CMD Run the command rmdir on the folder. Thanks dude.. I was looking for command line way of deleting nonempty folders.. Linked pull requests. Copy link. This is using the posh-git included in github for windows.
Should I try again? I'm closing the issue, but feel free to follow up if there's more going on here. Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account?
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