Difference between revisions of "Windows Path Length Limit Reached"
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===Method 1: Edit the registry by-hand, if you're comfortable making registry changes=== | ===Method 1: Edit the registry by-hand, if you're comfortable making registry changes=== | ||
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::That will result in a file called '''LongPathsEnabled.reg''' | ::That will result in a file called '''LongPathsEnabled.reg''' | ||
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| + | * Navigate to the location where you've unzipped '''LongPathsEnabled.reg''' | ||
*Double-click '''LongPathsEnabled.reg''' to run that file. | *Double-click '''LongPathsEnabled.reg''' to run that file. | ||
Revision as of 18:05, 20 May 2021
INTRO
- In many cases, Windows has a default limit of how many characters can make up a complete path to a file. That includes the length of the folder names. The limit is supposedly 260 characters for a path name. But, we've seen it actually stop at 255.
- To get around this limit, Windows allows you to make a change in the registry that will allow you to have a much longer path (in terms of number of characters in the path name) up to 32767 characters. A big increase!
Make a registry edit to increase path length
- Two ways to make the change. Either run the registry editor yourself (Method 1) or run a prepared script to do it for you (Method 2)
Method 1: Edit the registry by-hand, if you're comfortable making registry changes
- Become an Admin user on your system.
- Run regedit
- The key to change is located at:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
- The actual key change:
- "LongPathsEnabled"=dword:00000001
- Reboot to activate the change.
Method 2: Run a script to make the change for you.
- Download the script to enable long pathnames on your windows system by clicking:
- Unzip the downloaded file Win-LongPathsEnabled.zip
- That will result in a file called LongPathsEnabled.reg
- Become an admin user on your system
- Navigate to the location where you've unzipped LongPathsEnabled.reg
- Double-click LongPathsEnabled.reg to run that file.
- Reboot to activate the change.