Windows has a restriction on length of the filename. But sometimes, you may end-up with files which are having larger than 250 characters and windows will not allow us to delete them.
Windows 7 has come up with a tool called robocopy. We can delete long named files with the help of this tool.
Robocopy has an option called mirror copy which will create a mirror of source in destination folder.
- Create an empty folder.
- robocopy empty_folder long_named_directory /s /mir
- Now it will create mirror of empty folder in destination folder leaving bot the folders empty.
- You can happily delete both of them.
