Windows 7 path length limit hit on shared folder

[NamedNick]

Hello,
I'm using vagrant and thus have mounted a host folder like C:\....\project\ inside the Linux guest on /vagrant/ using vboxsf. Using linux software inside (npm package manager from node) I hit a path length limit on the shared folder which doesn't happen inside the Guest on the guests native system.

I found https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11976#comment:1 and made a quick comment there but then, I wasn't sure if I really did proper research on that topic and want to ask for help if there's maybe a solution getting vboxsf work to allow the Guest on Windows creating paths which would translate to paths > 255 or chars on Windows?

thanks

[Perryg]

Don't use vagrant. Or ask them what to do since this is their doing.

[Paulina]

I reccomend Long Path Tool. It solved all my problems.

[NamedNick]

FTR record, multiple things happened which made this problem obsolete:

- Not using Windows anymore as Host (OSX)
- not using npm anymore but yarn, which AFAIK de-nests the hierarchy madness of npm