Here's the solution that finally worked for me:
1. use SUBST to assign a drive letter to the path leading to the long name
2. enter that drive letter at a cmd prompt
3. rename the long-named file...
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Here's the solution that finally worked for me:
1. use SUBST to assign a drive letter to the path leading to the long name
2. enter that drive letter at a cmd prompt
3. rename the long-named file...
On a 2003 server I had a long folder name that would not delete. It had no short name. I could not rename it. Tried several other things.
Solution: Did a series of subst and renames on each folder...