“On The First 269 Characters Of FilePath Madness My Computer Gave To Me…”

Michael Nichols — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:58:02 GMT

I was experimenting with some rake msdeploy tasks and because of the crazy nesting created by the packages I exceeded the 255 character file path limit, making the folder(s) undeletable.

It took me a while to figure out the filepath restriction was what the problem was, so I wasted time in Recovery Console deleting files one at a time.

Finally, I just mapped a drive to a folder in the middle of the path using

subst K:\ “C:\MyVerrry\Verrry\Loooong\Pathname\etc”

and was able to execute del *.* /S/Q commands against the folders to kill it.

The tree msdeploy creates is insane and I can’t find any docs that indicate having control over that.

If you have more experience with MSDEPLOY than I do (meaning more than one day) then please let me know if you can control the output tree structure somehow without having to copy files first.

Mike Nichols - Son Of Nun Technology : Cmd

“On The First 269 Characters Of FilePath Madness My Computer Gave To Me…”