We troubleshoot problems like these for our clients every day. Then you can simply delete the two remaining empty foldersĪt Velan, our server support engineers can help you deleting long filename files and folders on your server. The following steps delete long filenames in Windows OS using Robocopy.Ĭreate a folder in the C drive called DELETE-MEĬopy the files/folders that need to be deleted to the DELETE-ME folder using Robocopy and /MIR option Shorten the name of the parent folder Temporarily rename the file extension to text Using the xcopy command Using Robocopy Utility Move, Delete, Or Copy.

Robycopy is an application which is built-in with windows and we can use this command to delete long filenames files and folders. If you try to delete files that are extracted from other OS and exceed ‘windows’ character length, the system will report that the name of the file is too long and cannot be deleted. Other operating systems like Mac or Linux does not have similar restrictions. Try moving to a location which has a shorter path name, or try renaming to shorter. and I have a long list of files, by exact file name, that I need to copy to.

Over 40 cloud storage products support rclone including S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage services, as well as standard transfer protocols. It is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors web storage interfaces. Windows uses Long Filenames (LFN) which supports up to 255 characters. The source file name(s) are larger than is supported by the file system. Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.

Robocopy long file name support