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When you want to completely delete a directory and it has file with long names inside it, Robocopy does a VERY good job.  The type of folders in this case could be Favorites with URLs that are really long.  When this happens the folder/file path becomes too long for Windows to delete properly.

Open Cmd.exe prompt as administrator.

Type the following commands:

1. mkdir “empty_dir”
2. robocopy “empty_dir” “the_dir_to_delete” /s /mir
3. rmdir “empty_dir”
4. rmdir “the_dir_to_delete”