Best way to resolve file path too long exception

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As the cause of the error is obvious, here’s some information that should help you solve the problem:

See this MS article about Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces

Here’s a quote from the link:

Maximum Path Length Limitation In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the following paragraphs), the maximum length
for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters. A local
path is structured in the following order: drive letter, colon,
backslash, name components separated by backslashes, and a terminating
null character. For example, the maximum path on drive D is “D:\some
256-character path string<NUL>” where “<NUL>” represents the invisible
terminating null character for the current system codepage. (The
characters < > are used here for visual clarity and cannot be part of
a valid path string.)

And a few workarounds (taken from the comments):

There are ways to solve the various problems. The basic idea of the solutions listed below is always the same: Reduce the path-length in order to have path-length + name-length < MAX_PATH. You may:

  • Share a subfolder
  • Use the commandline to assign a drive letter by means of SUBST
  • Use AddConnection under VB to assign a drive letter to a path

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