Unzipping RHQ 4.9 on Windows - Path Length Error

Van Dillon vandillon at gmail.com
Thu Sep 12 09:22:54 UTC 2013


Hi Fred,

I ran into this problem with 4.8.0.  You need to force Windows to create a
unicode path by prepending "\\?\" to the target path in whatever unzip tool
you are using (7-Zip in my case).

Van



On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Fred Holahan <
fred.holahan at opensourceadvisory.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to unzip the 4.9.0 archive on Windows 8 and am receiving
> several "path too long" failures (see attached screen shot).  I've
> intentionally chosen a very short install path (c:\r490) to minimize the
> file path size.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thank you.
> Fred
>
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