In general, I think take the first 6 characters of the name, followed by ~ and a numeral. If I'm not mistaken, Command Prompt can still refer to files with this type of name.

For example 'rm -r ' in Cygwin.Ĥ) In the old days (when I was a kid), MS DOS used to require file names to have maximum 8 characters, upper case, and with no special characters like space or comma. If you can successfully do that, I'm guessing deleting it would then work.ģ) You could also try using Command Prompt or Cygwin to delete the whole directory, making sure that file is the only one in it. Individually, I'd give this maybe a 50% chance of working, but if it doesn't work, maybe something further down this list wouldĢ) Likewise, you might be able to use Command Prompt or Cygwin with wildcards to rename or move the file, so its path and filename are shorter. For example, I would try something like 'rm A*' in Cygwin or 'erase A*' in Command Prompt, where 'A*' is a wildcard that expands to only the file you want to delete.

MS Command Prompt and Cygwin both provide multiple ways to specify a given file besides the full file name, for example using wild cards, regular expressions, etc.

I'm guessing the problem is more about communicating to the Windows shell what file you're trying to delete, as opposed to some problem with actually deleting it. (As-is, no warranty).ġ) Apparently you're getting an error message that the path or filename is too long for Windows to delete the file.

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