When importing a project into eclipse, it somehow started creating recursive versions of the directory.
Now, when I try to delete anything, I get the message " the file name you specify is too long."
I can't delete it from the command shell. I can't delete it from explorer. I can't do ANYTHING with it. I have no idea how many copies of it Eclipse created. Eclipse was running for like a minute before I realized something was wrong and I cancelled the operation.
I can get the properties of the top level folder, and it says it contains 497 folders.
Question 1: how can I delete all this stuff in Windows?
Question 2: What the hell was eclipse thinking?
robocopy empty_dir base_nested_dir /purge
Example: If you have a folder path that's too long such as:
D:\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles\BackupFolder\Copy\MyFiles
follow these instructions to delete it.
C:\Users\Name\Desktop\temp
.robocopy C:\Users\Name\Desktop\temp D:\BackupFolder /purge
Note: If there are spaces in either path in Step 3, the path must be inclosed by quotation marks.