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You may be able to use the Unicode . syntax in cmd to delete too-long directories, as the path-length with this syntax is limited to 32,767 characters .

I have a backup copy of a previous Windows Documents and Settings folder which only contains my original user and within 2 more directories: Favorites and Local Settings.

When I try to delete Local Settings I get this error:

When I try to delete Favorites, I get this error:

I ran this in a cmd shell:

attrib . -r -a -s -h /s

but it did not help, nor did it return any errors/warnings.

I used Unlocker v1.8.5 and LockHunter repeatedly at multiple levels to see if any files are in use, but both always say: No Files Locked.

Update 1:

I was able to rename the directory, which now gives me this warning before trying to delete:

If I press Yes or Yes to All then I get this error:

Update 2:

I let chkdsk /f run which required a reboot since it s on my primary system partition. During Stage 2 scanning, I received about 40 of these:

Deleting an index entry from index 0 of file 25.

followed by:

Deleting index entry cookies in index I30 of file 37576.

but I still get the first error dialog above when trying to delete.

I ran chkdsk again, this time: chkdsk /f /r. Produced no messages. Same result when deleting.

Update 3:

Digging deeper, the 99 is the name of one of many directories located deep in here:

C: Documents and Settings.OLD User Local Settings Application Data Microsoft Messenger address hotmail.com SharingMetadata user hotmail.com DFSR Staging CS D4E4AE55-B5E2-F03B-5189-6C4DA6E41788

Inside each of those directories were files with names such as:

2300- C93D01AC-0739-4FD9-88C7-13D2F21A208E -v2300- C93D01AC-0739-4FD9-88C7-13D2F21A208E -v2300-Downloaded.frx

I noticed that, unlike all the directories, I couldn t rename any of these files. I also noticed that the file dir names were extremely long:

Original directory 194 characters

Filenames 100 characters

Together the length exceeds the 255-char limit which is bad and would explain the error message I posted in Update 1.

Partial Solution:

Rename all directories until the total path length is less than 100. Afterwards I was able to rename the. frx files, not to mention delete everything inside the Local Settings directory.

This is only a partial solution because these empty directories are still not deleteable,

C: 1 2 Favorites Wien What To Do..

C: 1 2 Favorites Photography FIRE

Same error as above:

Here is what Explorer properties shows for both folders:

Update 4 another partial solution :

Using harrymc s answer combined with thoroughly reading through this amazing MS-KB article which contains nearly everyone s idea and then some, inconspicuously titled: You cannot delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume.

I was able to delete the 2nd folder C: 1 2 Favorites Photography FIRE - the problem being that there was an invisible trailing space at the end. I got lucky when I did an auto-complete whilst playing around with the del . command which he suggested.

NOTE: A normal del did NOT work, nor did deleting from explorer.

Now all that is left is the first directory C: 1 2 Favorites Wien What To Do.. yes I tried endlessly with multiple combinations of the above solution ;.

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