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Re^4: Shorten windows paths too long

by gj2666 (Beadle)
on Aug 18, 2010 at 15:32 UTC ( [id://855813]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Shorten windows paths too long
in thread Shorten windows paths too long

Or, much more simply... what if you just pile the whole tree into an archive, copy that across, and then unpack it on the other side, leaving the archiver app to deal with the excessive tree :)

Um yeah, zip utilities generally crash on pathname too long. (i've already got that t-shirt)

Hmm. magic increment. I will continue to investigate. Thanks for the suggestions.

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