Delete directories en files geeft foutmelding path or filename is too long

Bij het maken van een backup van de user-directory, wat overigens goed ging, deed zich het volgende probleem voor. Nadat ik voor testdoeleinden die backup-directory wilde verwijderen, kreeg ik bovenstaande foutmeldingen. Ook met shift + del gaat het niet.
Een oplossing is dan cygwin. Met deze linuxtools onder windows kreeg ik het wel voor elkaar.

Het commando is rm met de opties -r -R -f. Kijk wel uit: Zorg, dat je in de goede directory staat.

username@LT51 /cygdrive/e/ReserveBackup
$ rm --help
Usage: rm [OPTION]... FILE...
Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).

  -f, --force           ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt
  -i                    prompt before every removal
  -I                    prompt once before removing more than three files, or
                          when removing recursively; less intrusive than -i,
                          while still giving protection against most mistakes
      --interactive[=WHEN]  prompt according to WHEN: never, once (-I), or
                          always (-i); without WHEN, prompt always
      --one-file-system  when removing a hierarchy recursively, skip any
                          directory that is on a file system different from
                          that of the corresponding command line argument
      --no-preserve-root  do not treat '/' specially
      --preserve-root   do not remove '/' (default)
  -r, -R, --recursive   remove directories and their contents recursively
  -d, --dir             remove empty directories
  -v, --verbose         explain what is being done
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

By default, rm does not remove directories.  Use the --recursive (-r or -R)
option to remove each listed directory, too, along with all of its contents.

To remove a file whose name starts with a '-', for example '-foo',
use one of these commands:
  rm -- -foo

  rm ./-foo

Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to recover
some of its contents, given sufficient expertise and/or time.  For greater
assurance that the contents are truly unrecoverable, consider using shred.

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'rm invocation'

username@LT51 /cygdrive/e/ReserveBackup
$ rm -r -R -f users

username@LT51 /cygdrive/e/ReserveBackup