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Sometimes Windows has trouble deleting directories with very long paths down in the lower depths. Fortunately, robocopy can magically circumvent this! Simply create an empty directory and mirror it into the directory you wish to delete.
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robocopy /b /mir "C:\EmptyDir" "C:\DirToEmpty"
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