How To Fix Error: Path Too Long on Windows 10
This tutorial explains how to solve the Error: Path Too Long when you are trying to extract files from a compressed folder.
The Situation
You are trying to extract a compressed file from a folder but the following error appears:
This is due to a limitation on the length of the path, Windows your folder path has a limit of 256.
Solution 1
In this case we will use the file that you can find at this link: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/2020-06/R/eclipse-jee-2020-06-R-win32-x86_64.zip
The name of this file is very long and if we have a limit of 256 characters this is a total waste of space.
The quicker solution is to shrink the name to save some characters:
With this simple operation we saved 27 precious characters.
Try to re-extract the file and it should be fine, if the error persists it means that the path is still too long.
Solution 2
Another quick solution is to download 7zip from the official website https://www.7-zip.org/, install it and extract the file with 7zip.
