Windows – Display different icon for empty folders on network drives

Give these a shot. Good luck!

Use some Robocopy tricks, quote:

1. Create a dummy folder on the drive (D: in this example) where the elongated path lives:

   md AnyFolderName

2. Copy the dummy folder to the mutant folder using the /MIR (mirror) command line switch:

   robocopy D:\AnyFolder D:\BackupFolder /MIR

3. Let RoboCopy clean up the fouled folder. This could take a few minutes depending on the size of the folder.

4. Remove the fixed folder and the dummy folder:

   rd /s D:\BackupFolder rd /s D:\AnyFolder

That’s it. You are good to go.

OR

Renaming...

I had one folder with multiple folders inside like that, and the way i used is to rename the folder (main folder first then the next ones) and i finally was able to delete the main folder without any tools...

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I found out make a drive mapping about halfway into the folder structure you should be able to delete the latter half of the file heirarcy.

For example if you are getting the error trying to delete:

\\NAS.Device.Company.com\a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\l\m\n\o\p\q\r\s\t\u\v\w\x\y\z

Then map a network drive Z: to

\\NAS.Device.Company.com\a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\

This will reduce the file herarch down to a smaller path. Open explorer and view the Z: drive. It should contain a folder called L (in this example).

You should now be able to delete the L and its subfolders without an issue, thereby deleting half the folder hierarchy. After that, disconnect the z: drive and try to delete whatever is left normally. Problem solved!

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Use the Unlocker utility.

[4]: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/the-source-file-names-are-larger-than-is-supported/438a20a7-a964-4325-b755-8b5d75ddd15benter preformatted text here

This can't be easily done with the tools available in Windows.

Libraries are not regular folders but are virtual folders. Not many applications can use Windows Shell objects directly which are not file system objects.

So a script which creates hard links in "all" for all the files in "Assets" and "Images" seems to be the easiest way.

cd all
rem Remove all the files in all
del /f /q *.*

rem Create hard links to files from assets and images
for %I in (<full-path-to>\assets\*.*) do mklink /h "%~nxI" "%I"
for %I in (<full-path-to>\images\*.*) do mklink /h "%~nxI" "%I"

Here %~nxI will expand to file name and extension only, without the path. If the folders are on different drives, you have to use symbolic links: remove /h switch from mklink command.

Run the script above every time the contents of "Assets" and/or "Images" is updated, or run it periodically.

A better solution would watch for file updates in "Assets" and "Images" and synchronize the changes to "all".