Delete directory regardless of 260 char limit

Question

I\'m writing a simple script to delete USMT migration folders after a certain amount of days:

## Server List ##
$servers = \"Delorean\",\"Adelaide\",\"Brisba         


        

Answer 1

This is getting old but I recently had to work around it again. I ended up using 'subst' as it didn't require any other modules or functions be available on the PC this was running from. A little more portable.

Basically find a spare drive letter, 'subst' the long path to that letter, then use that as the base for GCI.

Only limitation is that the $_.fullname and other properties will report the drive letter as the root path.

Seems to work ok:

$location = \\path\to\long\
$driveLetter = ls function:[d-z]: -n | ?{ !(test-path $_) } | random

subst $driveLetter $location
sleep 1
Push-Location $driveLetter -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-ChildItem -Recurse

subst $driveLetter /D

That command is obviously not to delete files but can be substituted.