Artifact fails to copy into original folder

[Patrick Bye]

I tried to make an artifact of my node_modules. The artifact has all the files in it but after extracting, it fails on copying the same file every time. I think the windows runner thinks it's a directory instead of a file. I've watched the folders while the step was running and the artifact directory had all the files but the copy stops part way through with this error. It's always this file every time

Copy-Item : Could not find a part of the path 'E:\atlassian\atlassian-bitbucket-pipelines-runner\temp\82885005-9ced-516

5-a84d-a1b4d3b8ddab\1657559674402\artifact\2f585524-6ec1-49b0-b5ee-01b9e600ebe3\Trader.UI\node_modules\@babel\plugin-bu

gfix-safari-id-destructuring-collision-in-function-expression\LICENSE'.

At E:\atlassian\atlassian-bitbucket-pipelines-runner\temp\82885005-9ced-5165-a84d-a1b4d3b8ddab\1657559674402\tmp\setupA

rtifacts17884213904454524061.ps1:3 char:1

+ Copy-Item -Path "E:\atlassian\atlassian-bitbucket-pipelines-runner\bi ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (LICENSE:FileInfo) [Copy-Item], DirectoryNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CopyDirectoryInfoItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand

[Mark C]

Hi @Patrick Bye,

Thanks for reaching out to the community.

I've confirmed this with our Bitbucket Pipelines team and this appears to be a limitation with the Windows maximum path length.
You can check this link for more information: Windows - Maximum Path Length Limitation

I've also gone ahead and created a public bug ticket for this that can be located through this link so that we can track it. - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-22022

As a workaround, you can try:

• Using a short file path location (e.g. "E:\r\tmp"); or
• Change the default maximum characters in Windows (For Windows 10) - See relevant links below
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=cmd
  https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/The-Windows-10-default-path-length-limitation-MAX-PATH-is-256-characters.html

Hope it helps and do let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Mark C