runner: [Windows] Runner failing to extract project - Path too long

Describe the bug After succesfully setting up the first runner for our docs website, i moved on to the next. And here the extraction of the project is failing, as the path exceeds the max length allowed on windows.

`Exception calling “ExtractToDirectory” with “2” argument(s): “Could not find a part of the path ‘C:\actions-runner-my-r elewise_work\my.relewise.com\my.relewise.com\main\b7fc4a2e-4d2a-4ec4-a651-46d82e1b6b6c\brianhdk-my.relewise.com-77928d 6004bfaa38b59effe973533d51b9455863\src\Infrastructure.Database.Migrations\M1636740262_RemoveColumnsFromTriggersTables.c s’.” At line:1 char:111

… catch { } ; [System.IO.Compression.ZipFile]::ExtractToDirectory('C:\a …`

I noticed the path that the runner is building, is somehow including 2 GUIDs…

Path: C:\actions-runner-my-relewise_work\my.relewise.com\my.relewise.com\b7fc4a2e-4d2a-4ec4-a651-46d82e1b6b6c\brianhdk-my.relewise.com-77928d6004bfaa38b59effe973533d51b9455863

Why is it doing this? Where are these 2 “GUID” folders coming from? The path it creates for our docs site is:

C:\actions-runner_work\docs.relewise.com\docs.relewise.com

No double nested GUID folders.

the .tar file it downloads is: b7fc4a2e-4d2a-4ec4-a651-46d82e1b6b6c.tar.gz where is this guid coming from?

Expected behavior Shouldnt extract into these crazy long paths.

Runner Version and Platform

2-288.1

Windows server 2019

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
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Comments: 17 (1 by maintainers)

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Github action checkout@v3 can't find \win-x64\testapp-web.staticwebassets.runtime file

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This seems to happen only when git is not installed on the machine.

The repository will be downloaded using the GitHub REST API
To create a local Git repository instead, add Git 2.18 or higher to the PATH
Downloading the archive
Writing archive to disk
Extracting the archive

After installing git, the checkout action worked fine.

anitakrueger on Jun 22, 2022

thanks,

I also managed to fix the issue using: https://www.microfocus.com/documentation/filr/filr-4/filr-desktop/t47bx2ogpfz7.html

tGrothmannFluffy on Jun 29, 2022

I have fixed the issue by using to following https://gist.github.com/leodutra/a25bc1f51e8779943df0a95d5a4839d1 to make the Windows machine allow for longer path names. That fixed the issue we were having with path and file names being to long.

mzanoni on Jun 29, 2022

Thanks @RAORelewise, we’re investigating your issue. I’ll get back to you as soon as I have more information.

ruvceskistefan on Mar 16, 2022