Ability to fix long paths (Alternative to Long Path Tool)

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Description of the new feature / enhancement

I'm expecting a feature that would allow users to more-easily fix issues that arise with having files (and folders?) with long paths.

• Renaming the file
• Renaming the file path itself (maybe even the specified (nested) folder(s)
• Moving the file elsewhere

Scenario when this would be used?

This would be very useful for when explorer breaks and you can't manually rename a file. Currently, I have a file with a long file name and I noticed now that I can't rename the file to be shorter because anytime I try to rename it, it reverts right back to the original file path. Inspecting the file properties shows that the location prefix is \\?\G: and looking into it seems to be because of a broken long file path.

Supporting information

I tried doing ren "\\?\G:\folder\folder 2\long-file-name" "new-file-name" and I was able to finally rename the file. Would be nice if I could do this with PowerTools instead. Perhaps the tool can automatically find broken file paths inside a specified directory and attempt to rename the files for you with similar options to the file rename tool.