I noted this in the ticket itself as well, but I made a little batch file that uses recursion (sort of) to delete those longfilename directories. Hope it helps for someone:
http://traveltrippertech.blogspot.com/2009/03/off-to-bad-start-with-gwt.html On Mar 26, 9:41 pm, Erik Uzureau <uzur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey hey, I have run into the same, glorious, problem. > > Unfortunately, I have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes. > > Any help with deleting this directory greatly appreciated > > On Mar 3, 11:29 am, "quinn.rob...@gmail.com" <quinn.rob...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I have recently experienced the same problem, and have filed an > > issue:http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=3429&q=r... > > > This is very frustrating for people like me who are evaluating the > > possible use of this technology and yet cannot even get started due to > > some bug that creates an enormous number of recursive directories that > > cannot be deleted due to the Windows API limitations on filename size. > > > On Jan 8, 10:26 am, Eric Ayers <zun...@google.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Don & Raj, > > > > This is the first report I've heard of this. Would you mind filing an > > > issue > > > in the GWT issue tracker? > > > > http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/list > > > > Besides the usual stuff (GWT version, OS version, shell), if you can > > > include > > > the command lines you are using or any insight as to why this might be > > > happening on your machine it would be greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > -Eric. > > > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Raj <raj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Oh goodness, I got some company on this issue, its the latest GWT > > > > version and OS is Vista, initially I was confused and thought the > > > > script was still running as I was not able to delete the top project > > > > folder in C drive but problem is the script had ran once and had > > > > created unlimited project name folder recursively, I guess it would > > > > have gone as deep as 10000 folders because for a folder size of 6kb my > > > > whole workspace grew to size more than 500MB. > > > > > Vista can't delete folders which are deep inside and I tried to map > > > > them as shared folder and delete it but after 5 attempts (which I > > > > guess would have been 100 folders deep) I quit, because its not worth > > > > without knowing the depth of the root folder. > > > > > Apart from the actual cause of this issue, if anyone knows some > > > > utilities to delete or browse through deep folders would be helpful. > > > > > Thanks. > > > > --Raj > > > > > On Jan 7, 10:38 am, Don <dgp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I experienced this same problem using the latest GWT (1.5.3) for > > > > > windows and Eclipse Ganymede. I also followed the GWT instructions for > > > > > creating a brand new GWT project using Eclipse. The project name used > > > > > in both the projectCreator and applicationCreator scripts was the > > > > > same. After attempting the import of the new project into Eclipse, I > > > > > found the infinitely recursive folder chain with projectName > > > > > \projectName\projectName\projectName\... inside of the Eclipse > > > > > workspace. Hopefully someone knows the solution to this problem. It is > > > > > very frustrating... > > > > > > BTW, the too-long filename fix is to go down into the projectName > > > > > folders and share a folder way down in the path with full permissions. > > > > > Then map a drive to that folder. This will shorten the path so that > > > > > you can work with it. You may have to do this more than once. You can > > > > > also rename the folders to a single letter to shorten the path. I was > > > > > able to manually delete it using the above methods. > > > > > > On Jan 5, 12:37 pm, TBirch <tjfbi...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I have had this happen to me twice lately trying to import an > > > > > > existing > > > > > > project into eclipse. On the first machine, it ran till the machine > > > > > > ran out of memory. Then, vista could not delete the files as the > > > > > > path > > > > > > was too long. I had to restore the system. The second time on > > > > > > another > > > > > > machine I noticed it was happening and I canceled the import before > > > > > > it > > > > > > that far along. I am very hesitant to import at this point. > > > > > > > On Jan 5, 9:47 am, "Isaac Truett" <itru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Raj, > > > > > > > > What version of GWT are you using? Also, can you describe what you > > > > > > > mean by "unlimited recursive files" in your project? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > Isaac > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Raj <raj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to setup GWT in my machine and followed the steps > > > > > > > > given > > > > in > > > > > > > > the instruction and created an eclipse project using > > > > projectCreator, I > > > > > > > > was little amazed to see the project size of more than 500MB > > > > > > > > while > > > > > > > > importing it into eclipse but only to find the script has > > > > > > > > created > > > > > > > > unlimited recursive files inside MyProject folder, the worst > > > > > > > > part > > > > is > > > > > > > > its getting created again automatically after deleting it and > > > > > > > > even > > > > > > > > after restarting the machine. How to stop this script from > > > > executing? > > > > > > > > Did anyone got this error before? > > > > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > --Raj > > > > -- > > > Eric Z. Ayers - GWT Team - Atlanta, GA > > > USAhttp://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
