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Windows tool to copy and delete files and folders with long paths. Just browse to the file and press a button to delete it, that’s it!

The application solves the problem with inability to copy and delete files and folders with long paths or locked by some application. They could be created by virus/adware/different OS/other software. Normally one can't access such files under Windows and therefore can't delete them either.

Please check other Features for more details. Also you can download the latest evaluation version on our download page.

Path Too Long Utility uses a variety of methods to delete the persistent or locked files, including attempting to close the handle, killing the process holding the file open, unloading the DLL that may have open the file handle, scheduling the file to be deleted on the next reboot, etc.
The program works under Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.

    Have you have ever get a message from Windows like:
  • Cannot delete file: Access is denied
  • There has been a sharing violation.
  • The source or destination file may be in use.
  • The file is in use by another program or user.
  • Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.
  • Error Deleting File or Folder
  • Cannot delete file or folder The file name you specified is not valid or too long. Specify a different file name.
when you tried to delete, move or rename a file? Then this program will be helpful.
Path Too Long Utility identifies the processes (running programs) that have locked that file, preventing it from being deleted, moved or renamed.

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Feedback
After having tried numerous programs to delete a number of folders from one of my drives nothing worked. Even using the Command Line with every command and extension I could think off failed. Then I tried your program - Path Too Long Utility. It worked simply and effectively. To your team of technicians a heartfelt thankyou.

Sincerely

"Thanks! Your application worked well and accomplished it's purpose."


"I've got the application and it's removed the problem folder. Thanks again."


"Thank you. This will help me solve some issues by students." 


"I downloaded and installed it. It works very well. It was able to delete the long path folders." 


"Thank you for sending the program instantly. It did the trick : ) 
Have a nice day!" 


"I finally used your tool and it fixed my problem. I was using a script here, but your program is much better.Thanks and good luck." 


"Hello,
It works fine.
Thanks and best regards" 


"I use netapp storage, and a volume was filling up.
I wanted to subdivide it and delete a root directory which had 600GB of data in it.
This would solve several problems for me:
1) the existing volume needed some free space, and
2) subdividing is useful for keeping our netapp volumes below the limit at which we
can use their deduplication technology.
The problem was this 600GB of data was full of incredibly long paths which could not be deleted.
Even after I migrated the data to a new volume, I could not remove the now out of production root-level folder,
and hence could not free up the storage. I could delete bits and pieces, but in the main one cannot
root around 600GB of data looking for problems and solve them one at a time.
Your utility was brilliant - hence I got the site license since we do a lot of fileserver operations
and I am sure it will come in handy in the future." 


"Thank you so much for developing the path too long utility. It was the only software that eliminated the files clogging my hard drive, and it freed up 345 GB of space! Thanks again, and keep up the great work!" 


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