Windows to this day still has the 260 chars path limit. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#maxpath http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/li

Windows to this day still has the 260 chars path limit. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#maxpath http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_filename https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_filename Microsoft should finally fix such old limitations (-> update WinAPI), instead adding work arounds to third party projects like Nodejs. https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/issues/69 https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/issues/69 They could also improve the command line shell (cmd.exe) that also PowerShell relies on.