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I have a folder called "io" in my computer hard disk drive D: .
Since its an unnecessary folder I try to right click and delete then I'm getting following message and cannot delete it.
the filename you specified is invalid or too long. specify a different filename
then I try to delete using windows command line and using following code
del /S D:\io\*
then getting following error
According to this question I followed top answers of that but none of the thing worked for me
Downloaded and installed 7-zip and same error getting
used following command too
rmdir /S /Q <dir>
here the result then
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Possible duplicate of How to delete directories with path/names too long for normal delete
– DavidPostill – 2015-11-08T14:24:30.840@DavidPostill I downloaded and install 7-Zip that solution not working for me , same error message getting – Kelum Priyadarshane – 2015-11-08T14:33:24.263
<shrug> Did you try the other 19 answers in the duplicate? – DavidPostill – 2015-11-08T14:36:26.840
I had this very problem with a file, I tried the solutions in the duplicate given by David but to no avail. Then I booted my win 7 into safemode and tried to delete it, but failed again. To my surprise, when I rebooted my pc the file is gone. You could give this a try :) – RogUE – 2015-11-08T14:39:23.797
@DavidPostill its only have 15 answers – Kelum Priyadarshane – 2015-11-08T14:42:49.927
@kelumpriyadarshane 4 of the answers were deleted as spam. That still leaves 15 for you to try ;) – DavidPostill – 2015-11-08T14:44:15.177