On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 17:24:04 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Big Al
writes:
On 1/12/19 10:44 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
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Oh, and if you use robocopy to copy a profile, use the /XJ
switch.
Otherwise, you will have Appdata/local/Application Data/Application
Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application
Data/Application Data/Application Data unto the 17th or 34th
generation.
Which you cannot delete, because the path/filename is too long.
Fortunately "unlocker.exe" worked. "Unlocked" everything, and
then it was just "delete, delete, delete". (download from
unlocker.emptyloop.com - it has been a boon many times.)
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("Take ownership" is another good one.) If it's just overlong
file/pathnames that are your problem, then the old DOS command SUBST
still works up to at least W7.

Another quick and dirty way to deal with cases where the filepath is too
long is to rename from the top down, assigning a random single letter to
each folder until the total filepath length is within limits. I tend to
use that method because it's what I think of first, but SUBST is a
cleaner, better way, and works up through at least 8.1.

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Char Jackson