Massive amount of subfolders and long subfolders. ¿How can I delete all of them?

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Published on 2011-02-02T12:23:16Z Indexed on 2011/02/02 15:27 UTC
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Good day. We have a little problem here.

We have a share with the backup of all the server's offices, Its a really big share with more than 8.000.000 files.

Our users usually give long names to the folders they create, and then make subfolders (long too) and more subfolders... and more suboflders....

We have a new share with more capacity, and with a simpe robocopy bat we copied all the files and folders (some give problems, but we manually copied them)

But the problem is deleting them. del command didnt work well when so long paths, neirder rmdir... I'm tried some commanders, but no luck.

Can u recommend me any tool that can delete recursively or able to delete 255+ paths?

Edited: The SO on background of the share it's NetApp OS. But I can access it from Windows Servers. 2000 and 2003

Thanks.

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