Windows 10: error:path name too long when extract file

Greetings technicians, I received the error: path name too long when I extract Avid-Pro_Tools_HD_10.3.9.zip for inner files. Have any way for solving this problem in order to extract file without error.

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File path too long for extraction from external hard drive

I copied the zipped backup files from the external drive into the Documents folder in File Explorer. When clicking on the individual files I choose the 'extract all' option. It extracts those files with adequate file path length but prompts me to skip files
where the path is too long.

I obviously didn't realise that there are potential path length issues when I named/saved the files initially.

How can I access the path and change it so that I can extract and open the files?

Many thanks

Angie

 

Extracting Zip Files

Thanks pyramid10 for your contribution, I ensured that the steps taken and the source and destination folders were the same, in the using zip7 as suggested by BunnyJ resolved all issues for me.
I am the first to admit that I am a long long way from understanding the intricacies of computers and if truth be told I am now to old anyway to absorb much information.
Cheers.

 

Explorer support for zip files with long file paths

Windows 10 Explorer natively support accessing files within a zip without exploding/extracting it.

That is a great feature since it prevents us to have to needlessly waste time and space to extract zip files just to look at some files within the zip file.

However, while accessing the zip file directly from Explorer, we have found that if people create a long folder structure with long folder names and long file names before zipping the folder structure, then trying to access some of those long folder/file
name files in the zip file starts to fail, complaining about the path being too long.

Is there a known fix for that ? (One that does not involve extracting the entire zip file, just to look at one file)

(FYI: we have enabled the computer for long file paths in the registry, and accessing the exact same folder structure outside of the zip file at the root of the drive works fine)

Similarly, trying to extract the zip file in some folder within the drive folder hierarchy also fails, giving some error while extracting the zip file.

Can someone explain why trying to extract the zip file in some folder within the drive folder hierarchy also fails, given we have enabled the computer for long file paths in the registry ?

The only option we have found so far is to extract the zip file in the root of the drive, which then allow us to access all the files. even the ones with very long folder file names.

Thanks for any fix or insight you can provide.