Hint! When you try to rename you don’t see the extension, most probability you don’t have it enabled. Right-click again to rename and revert back the change to “.zip”.You are free to move the file to the new destination.To rename the file right-click and click to “rename”.Please keep in mind that the file will not work if you don revert back to. txt and copy/delete/move to the new destination. If for example you have a zip file just rename.

txt files have a higher limit while transferring. Temporarily rename the file extension to textĪccording to Microsoft. This method is applicable when you have a few files/folders to move/delete/copy.

This is not always applicable and especially if you have a lot of files that are exceeding the length limit. Execute your operation to see whether the issue goes away and if not continue with the next steps. Rename the parent folder to decrease the full path length. This is a simple way and we will start from this. READ ALSO - Fastest way to delete hiberfil sys from windows 10/8/7 and XP - CMD Temporary Solution: Shorten the name of the parent folder

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