Spring Tool Suite download and installation

Question

I've downloaded spring-tool-suite-3.6.1.RELEASE-e4.4-win32-x86_64.zip and getting the following error while trying to unzip and install:

Error 0x80010135: Path too long
POM.properties
Type PROPERTIES File
Date Modified 6/11/2014 12:47PM
Size 146 bytes.

What may be the reason?

Solution 1

Possible solutions:

1. Rename spring-tool-suite-3.6.1.RELEASE-e4.4-win32-x86_64.zip to springts.zip
2. Move spring-tool-suite-3.6.1.RELEASE-e4.4-win32-x86_64.zip to C:/ or in another location that is not very deep.
3. Change your extractor to 7-zip.

Solution 2

Try with any alternative for zip such as 7Zip or WinRAR. 7Zip worked for me

Solution 3

This happens because of the zip file name being too long.You can rename the downloaded zip file to something like STS.zip (Give a short name) and then try to extract it.The error should now disappear.

Comments

[Paul Samsotha]

Try and save it in the C:/ and see what happens. Seems like you're trying to save it somewhere too deep

[Paul Samsotha]

Maybe related

[ktm5124]

Thanks for asking this question! I had the same problem.

[Cale Sweeney]

I did a combination of #1 and #2. I put the zip folder in a folder I created at the C drive, so this was my path C:/STS. I renamed the zip file to STS-3.6.1.zip. That fixed the path too long issue. I am using Windows 10 and was able to use the native zip program to extract.

[TimeTrap]

A simpler version: right-click on downloaded zip, click on "Extract All..." and simply change the name of the new folder the contents are extracted to. I changed C:\Tools\spring-tool-suite-3.9.2.RELEASE-e4.7.2-win32-x86_64 to simply C:\Tools\sts-3.9.2 and averted any error msg.

[Shachi]

7zip works well... also I extracted in Downloads folder itself

[Ravi]

7zip is pretty much fine.

[GILBERTO LINS]

When I changed winzip for 7zip, then work well. Thanks!!!!!