> On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Anthony Jackman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Forgive me if this sounds simple.  I am working on a Windows 7 machine and 
> have been playing with yoeman developed directories.  Now that I feel 
> comfortable with that portion of nodejs, I would like to delete all those 
> "playground" directories, since the machine that I am working on is a 
> corporate owned asset.  But when I use the command line "rmdir XXXXXXX /s", 
> it only goes so far into that project before windows tells me that the 
> filename is too long.  I assume this is because of the many many duplicated 
> modules that a (yoeman) project creates and also the way that Windows deletes 
> files and folders.  So, does anyone have another route that I can take to 
> remove these 'playground' directories without doing it by hand??

npm install -g rimraf
rimraf XXXXXXX

Windows' old APIs can't deal with new long names. Guess which tools still use 
the old APIs!

But rimraf has your back -- it's a node module that uses the new APIs that node 
uses and can work without restrictions.

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