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Tip: Delete long file names/folders

I work with node packages frequently. The file paths are often longer than what Windows will process. When trying to delete these files and folders, you’ll see an error message saying it can’t delete the file because the name is too long.

The easiest and most consistent way I’ve found to delete these files and folders is to use the node program rimraf.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf

After it’s installed.

rimraf somefolder

It just works.