Delete long file path names.

I made the stupid mistake of importing an Eclipse project into my workspace when the import location was from the workspace itself. I went to delete the recursive folder when I encountered an error that the file path name was too long to delete.

The best manual solution that I found was to go as deep as possible in the recursive folder and then map it to a virtual drive.
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[subst x: c:\recursiveFolder\]{.Apple-style-span style=”font-family: ‘Courier New’, Courier, monospace;”}[recursiveFolder\]{.Apple-style-span style=”font-family: ‘Courier New’, Courier, monospace;”}[recursiveFolder\...]{.Apple-style-span style=”font-family: ‘Courier New’, Courier, monospace;”}
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[This can be quite an arduous process; I found myself creating up to 9 virtual drives. It eventually worked though and I was able to delete the recursive folder.]{.Apple-style-span style=”font-family: inherit;”}
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[I also found a site with a Perl script that deletes long file paths but haven't tested it myself.]{.Apple-style-span style=”font-family: inherit;”}