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copied!<p>I created <a href="https://github.com/deadlydog/PathLengthChecker" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Path Length Checker tool</a> for this purpose, which is a nice, free GUI app that you can use to see the path lengths of all files and directories in a given directory.</p> <p>I've also <a href="http://blog.danskingdom.com/powershell-script-to-check-path-lengths/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">written and blogged about a simple PowerShell script</a> for getting file and directory lengths. It will output the length and path to a file, and optionally write it to the console as well. It doesn't limit to displaying files that are only over a certain length (an easy modification to make), but displays them descending by length, so it's still super easy to see which paths are over your threshold. Here it is:</p> <pre><code>$pathToScan = "C:\Some Folder" # The path to scan and the the lengths for (sub-directories will be scanned as well). $outputFilePath = "C:\temp\PathLengths.txt" # This must be a file in a directory that exists and does not require admin rights to write to. $writeToConsoleAsWell = $true # Writing to the console will be much slower. # Open a new file stream (nice and fast) and write all the paths and their lengths to it. $outputFileDirectory = Split-Path $outputFilePath -Parent if (!(Test-Path $outputFileDirectory)) { New-Item $outputFileDirectory -ItemType Directory } $stream = New-Object System.IO.StreamWriter($outputFilePath, $false) Get-ChildItem -Path $pathToScan -Recurse -Force | Select-Object -Property FullName, @{Name="FullNameLength";Expression={($_.FullName.Length)}} | Sort-Object -Property FullNameLength -Descending | ForEach-Object { $filePath = $_.FullName $length = $_.FullNameLength $string = "$length : $filePath" # Write to the Console. if ($writeToConsoleAsWell) { Write-Host $string } #Write to the file. $stream.WriteLine($string) } $stream.Close() </code></pre>

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