Paths too long on windows 7

[cb88]

When extracting the zip file on Windows 7 with 7zip I got an error while it was copying from the temp directory to the desktop. When I copied it to the C:\ drive it was fine and appears to be working.

Also, the windows 7 built in zip utilities failed to open the file but 7zip opened it and when I used 7zip to test it it was ok.

[quasto]

hi @cb88
we recommend to follow this guide for Windows installation: http://labs.arduino.org/Arduino+Studio+for+Windows. Using 7zip you shouldn't have problems.
Let us know if you encountered any others problems unzipping the package.
Regards

[cb88]

Well I did use 7zip and I did have the problem I mentioned.

When extracting to my desktop it said the path was too long. I know this is a problem for kicad on windows as well... however the page you linked me to there mentioned nothing about needing to extract the files to a folder close to the root of the drive.

[quasto]

@cb88 yes, the page doesn't say anything about extracting in C:\ folder because, using 7zip, we never encountered the problem. In the following picture you can see that I extracted the zip file into a folder "test" which is into the Desktop.

We also tested the unzipping process on Win 7, 8.1 and 10 and it works.
Please help me to help you (and other users), how can I reproduce the problem? 😕
Thank you for your help

[cb88]

So the only differences I can think of is that I am on a domain with a user folder path equivalent to: C:\Users\username1.DOMAIN1\Desktop

Also 7zip is installed in it's default location. The error does not occur during but extraction but the file copy from temp to the destination folder.

[quasto]

Unfortunately I don't have a Windows machine running on a domain so i can not make this test. But I think the problem might be related with Windows domain 😔. I need some time to be able to make this test.

[nicolettedanagrin]

Try the Long Path Tool