marceln/superdelete

SuperDelete is a Windows command line application (.NET) that can be used to delete files and directories with very long paths - longer than 260 characters.

SuperDelete

About

A Windows command-line tool that can be used to delete files and folders with very long paths (longer than MAX_PATH 260 characters). It supports paths as long as 32767 characters. It works by using extended-length paths and the Unicode versions of the WinApi functions for enumerating and deleting files. In addition, it supports bypassing ACL checks for deleting folders if the user has administrative rights on the drive.

More info about the mechanism can be found in MSDN article Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces, in section "Maximum Path Length Limitation".

It's written in C#/NET and provides VS projects for building for .NET 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.6

Usage

It's fairly simple. Just open a command-line window and run the tool. It takes only one parameter, which can be a full file or folder path.

With confirmation

SuperDelete.exe fullPathToFileOrFolder

Silent mode

The tool supports an additional command line argument which suppresses the confirmation message. Could be used in automating some tasks. The argument is --silent or -s.

SuperDelete.exe --silent fullPathToFileOrFolder

Bypass ACLs

In the case where the user has administrative rights on the drive, the tool can bypass ACL checks and remove the file even if the user doesn't have rights in the ACL. This is useful in cases where a drive is moved from another machine or Windows installation.

SuperDelete.exe --bypassAcl fullPathToFileOrFolder

Printing stack trace

If there is an exception, this will print the callstack where the exception occurred. This is mostly useful for debugging.

SuperDelete.exe --printStackTrace fullPathToFileOrFolder

Downloads

The latest release is SuperDelete 1.2.0 and you can get it from the Releases page.

superdelete's Issues

Add to context menu, integrate file explorer

This looks pretty cool, but I'm wondering if it's possible to integrate this into the contact menu where you can right click and delete with superdelete and it takes care of the parameters automatically. Also if there is a way to set this as the regular default handler so when you delete something, SuperDelete is invoked.

Shuld allow parameter to suppress confirmation

Trying to use it in a batch file, but asks me to confirm each file deletion.

three request

three request
1 SuperDelete -s --bypassAcl c:\test*frame*.*
joker possible feature request

2 SuperDelete -s --bypassAcl --killlockers_EXEs c:\test*frame*.*
force delete example firefox chrome everything processes lockers.
killtasks all.

3 SuperDelete -s --bypassAcl --whichkilllockers_EXE_list c:\test*frame*.*
which lockers? get list

Sincerely

Just wanted to say AWESOME! THANK YOU FOR THIS.

That is all. You can close this.

ERROR: Failed to remove reparse point

Trying to use these to delete some unwanted NAS files copied onto a clean Windows 2016 partition. Files over the 256 character limit have been a pain. When I try to run this command against large directories or files i get the error