unable to open Zip, or Clone project due to directory length

[dnnadmins]

For us poor windows users, we are unable to download the project or clone it with GitDesktop- the file paths exceed windows allowances and we get the following errors;

[dynamicdan]

This is a known issue on windows systems. For the current version there are not many solutions BUT you're in luck. I'm about to merge in the experimental branch that uses an up-to-date NPM packaging setup. Both the newer NPM install tool and the removal of node_modules from the FileSync repo will mean that you can avoid this windows error.