windows 8 - Can't delete a folder because it's too deep

I have no idea how this happened, but I have a folder with so many sub folders that I can't delete the root folder. I have been googling this for about 2 hours and I've tried many things, nothing is working.

I've tried a few 3rd party tools, but no luck. I also can't map a drive to anyplace inside this folder. It tells me the path is not valid.

Any ideas?

Answer

Just shorten the names of the folders the undeletable folder resides in so the whole path has a maximum of around 250 Charakters. Then you should be able to delete it.

Example:

If the last folder can not be delted:

C:\folder1xxxxxxxx\folder2xxxxxx\folder3xxxxx\lastfolder

Now you should be able to delete it:

C:\folder1\folder2\folder3\lastfolder