Can't delete because folder path is too long.

[msguerra74]

I don't know if it's just me or not, but I'm having a really hard time deleting the grunt-contrib-imagemin folder from inside node_modules. I'm running Windows 8.1 (64-bit) and it tells me the path is too long. I've looked at the folder structure and it gets really nested down so deeply that I have to really jump through hoops to finally get it all deleted. This just started happening sometime in the last 2 or 3 updates, so I was wondering if anyone else was having this issue? Thanks

[jamesplease]

This is a known issue with npm, not this plugin. You should look for help there!

[oTnarP]

anyone used “Long Path Tool”
This tool is great
Thanks

[aamarks]

I've just figured this out and don't know a lot about this, but the newest version(s) of npm handles installation by flattening the directory structure of dependencies and thus installs grunt-contrib-imagemin without exceeding windows file length limits. To "fix" old installs first uninstall problematic plugins such as this one and grunt-contrib-uglify, and then reinstall. Simply updating plugins won't flatten. (My current installed versions are Nodejs v.4.5. which includes npm 2.15. which I then upgraded to npm 3.10.)