Copying and synchronizing files and folders with Iperius Backup or any other backup software, sometimes it might happen the destination path of the files becomes too long to be handled by Windows (in fact, the maximum path length allowed by Windows Explorer is 255/260 characters). When a folder contains files with a path that exceeds the maximum path allowed by Windows, there could be errors in copying or deleting those files. Practically, that folder cannot be deleted anymore. Long Path Eraser (LPE) is a free tool that allows deleting files and folders with too long paths, that you cannot delete manually. Long Path Eraser automatically deletes the folder you selected, including all its files and subfolders, regardless of their path length (even if they are in a network folder). (updated ) As said above, it can happen that a copy operation creates paths longer than the maximum value you can handle manually by the Windows Explorer (). When this thing occurs, the folder containing files with long paths cannot be deleted anymore, consuming disk space and generating errors if you try to move or copy it manually. Windows might show the following errors: • “Error cannot delete file: cannot read from source file or disk” • “Path too long” • “Cannot delete file or folder The file name you specified is not valid or too long.

Specify a different file name.” • “Cannot remove folder – the filename or extension is too long” • “File name too long” Long Path Eraser allows you to select the root folder from which start to delete all its content in a recursive mode, recovering the disk space, and finally solve the problem. Long Path Eraser is a free software developed by Enter Srl (). It can be used by companies and freely distributed. Long Path Eraser is portable, so no installation is required, You simply need to start the executable file. Oh bear3 Greetings, I use this program heavily for deleting Citrix profiles dating back to 2012 – so there is a lot of data. I am using Long Path Eraser ver.

Every so often the program will just stop and say the deleting is complete with the number of files and amount of space it cleared. But if you go to the file path (on a network share), it didn’t clean up everything, and files and folders still exist. Download free air chicago towel folder manual pdf. The program works, but it just seems to stop after an undetermined amount of time. Was wondering if there is anything I’m doing wrong or if there is a hard stop, coded somewhere within the program. Typically, I can get anywhere from 16-23gig before the program stops, at which point I have to click “delete folder” to continue the deleting from where it left off.

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Other than that, great program and thanks. Jen S This was the first time I experienced having trouble deleting a file due to a long path file name, and came across Long Path Tool, however with their recent 5.1.6 version release, I was required to purchase the serial key, which I didn’t want to do. Thankfully, I came across this page, and wanted to thank you for providing a free software that took care of the issue. I’m on Windows 8.1, 64bit and this tool worked perfectly. Easy install.