Windows has a path length limit of 260 characters a workaround for this is to use a \\?\ prefix. Such a prefix works when using a regular PowerShell however using it in UiPath’s Invoke Power Shell activity it doesn’t seemed to be recognized as seen below: Regular PS: [image] Invoke Power Shell a…

Hello @MarekBruna , thanks for writing to us. While I cannot confirm technically what is the actual implementation of UiPath Powershell activity, I can suggest you a workaround that worked personally for me. Instead of using the Powershell activity directly to execute your command, I did the followin…

Hello Alex, I tried your solution and it does not make a difference, however i stumbled across the reason of this issue, see an answer below.

Hello Marian, I’m aware of that workaround however I’m not allowed to make such changes to the environment where that script is supposed to run. Nonetheless here is I believe a valid reason a particular user gave me for this issue, it seems to be caused by an incompatible .NET framework version, se…

Did you try the same approach in a Windows project?

What do you mean by WIndows project? According to the quote above that person tried it in Visual Studio project using 4.6.1 .NET version and was seeing the same behaviour that can be spotted in UiPath, this would mean that the Invoke PowerShell activity should be re-developed by UiPath using 4.7.2+ …

Did you try this behavior in a Windows-Legacy project only? Check the same in a Windows project.

I now tried both project types, both of them end up with the same wrong output: Windows-Legacy project: [image] [image] Windows project: [image] [image] PowerShell: [image]

What version of UiPath Studio and UiPath.System.Activities package are you using?

Invoke Power Shell Windows long path prefix Bug

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marian.platonov (Marian Platonov) September 2, 2022, 9:15am 4

Also, you may take a look here for your issue with long path: Error: LibGit2Sharp.LibGit2SharpException: path too long - #5 by marian.platonov

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