Steel Detailing Tips – How to fix “path” too long errors

In the construction business – you will often find yourself zipping / unzipping large sets of documents, and copying them from A to B etc. Often when dealing with deeply nested folder structures, you will get an error – regarding long path names. Like this:

This is especially annoying if you are copying large sets of documents.

Ordinarily I would suggest that clients avoid deeply nested folder structures – but then I thought: who am I to presume to how anyone should structure their affairs?

Why not allow for long file paths in the first place? This is how you can do it?

• In the Administrator terminal, run the following command

Set-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem' -Name 'LongPathsEnabled' -Value 1

Here’s how to open the terminal in admin mode:

• So to the Windows search bar.
• Type in “CMD”
• Then click on “Run as administrator”

How you can unzip deeply nested folder structures, in your own deeply nested folder.