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Can`t delete a folder file name being too long

trying to delete a folder but somewhere file name is too long.

tried rmdir [dir] /s /q, didnt work, lists a bunch of sub directories then say "The system cannot find the file specified"

tried robocopy [new dir] [problem dir] /purge, didnt work, runs for a while then i get a program error window and then wants to find a solution, of course it cannot find anything.

read some other solutions here,

disk cleanup doesnt work

installed and ran long path eraser, that runs for a bit then gets program error window 

and then wants to find a solution, of course it cannot find anything either.

any ideas on what do now?

There appears to be some file system corruption. Running this command might fix it:

chkdsk.exe  C:  /f

(Is C: the correct drive letter for this folder?)

Do you have any recent backups of your data? Chkdsk will on occasion turn readable files into useless chunks of data.

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If you open a Command Prompt and use the following commands, do you see the "short name" for the file in question?  It should be 0-prod~1 unless you have several similarly-named files, in which case the number after the ~ character will change.  You should then be able to delete it using del 0-prod~1

cd Windows.old\Users\Slayer\AppData\Local\Packages\WinStore_cw5n1h2txyewy\AC\Microsoft\Windows Store\Cache\0

dir /x

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