Directory Name Must Be Less Than 248 Characters

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Over the holiday weekend, I was deleting some old projects out of my coding projects folder when Powershell returned an error stating, "The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters." I found that attempting to delete the folder from explorer or a DOS prompt also failed.