Path too long error in Windows
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Author: Momchil Ivanov <momchil@xaxo.eu>
Date  : 2017.10.13

Introduction
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  Windows has a default path name length limit of 256
  characters. Nested folders can, however have longer paths. Trying to
  remove files or directories which have path names longer than the
  limit can be a problem.

Increasing the limit
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  Windows 10 has a registry setting to enable path names longer than
  this limit.

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

  Dword (32-bit): LongPathsEnabled = 1

Removing files
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  One way to circumvent the path name limit when deleting files is
  using robocopy. In order to do this one creates an empty folder and
  uses robocopy to synchronise it with the folder in questing using
  the /purge flag which removes all files an directories that do not
  exist in the empty folder.

    $ mkdir empty
    $ robocopy empy my-folder /purge