How do I delete a folder where argument list is too long?

Question

The folder I am trying to delete has sub folders and those sub folders have their child folders. So, it's a huge tree of folders. Please advise.

I've never seen a path where it was too long to delete :) ..how deeply do you need to cd into the tree before running rd /q/s <folder> works properly?

GeneQ · Answer 1 · 2009-07-28 08:45:52Z

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rmdir /S [Directory]

Removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory tree.

Is that what you're trying to do?

answered Jul 28 '09 at 8:45

GeneQ
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It still says something like File is too long.. – DragonBorn Aug 24 '09 at 6:56

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