How do I find files with a path length greater than 260 characters in Windows?

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WestHamster picture WestHamster · Oct 2, 2012 · Viewed 200.7k times · Source

I'm using a xcopy in an XP windows script to recursively copy a directory. I keep getting an 'Insufficient Memory' error, which I understand is because a file I'm trying to copy has too long a path. I can easily reduce the path length, but unfortunately I can't work out which files are violating the path length restriction. The files that are copied are printed to the standard output (which I'm redirecting to a log file), but the error message is printed to the terminal, so I can't even work out approximately which directory the error is being given for.

Answer

rerun picture rerun · Oct 2, 2012

do a dir /s /b > out.txt and then add a guide at position 260

In powershell cmd /c dir /s /b |? {$_.length -gt 260}

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