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The compression cannot be performed because the path to the file or directory 'Application Data' is too long
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Mar 15, 202612401 viewsConfidence Score0%
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In Windows 7, whenever I tried to compress the USER directory into a .zip file I experienced this error and cannot continue: The compression cannot be performed because the path to the file or directory 'Application Data' is too long. Is there any way to compress the USER directory?
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Fix for: The compression cannot be performed because the path to the file or directory 'Application Data' is too long
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The problem is that "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Application Data" is a NTFS junction point that points to "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local". This causes an infinite loop in programs that do not specifically check for junction points. …
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