Reject writes: Windows path-length limit reached.

Open 💬 4 comments Opened Mar 10, 2026 by atlamors

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

26.304.20706

What subscription do you have?

Business

Which IDE are you using?

Cursor

What platform is your computer?

Windows

What issue are you seeing?

"The combined patch hit a Windows path-length limit."

<img width="660" height="299" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b4f5ba93-777b-439c-824c-f07f2f5b59e6" />

This is happening dozens of times during small coding sessions.

<img width="652" height="151" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/116e091a-cbc0-4e22-85bb-de219c0d55b7" />

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Run Codex in Cursor on Windows 11
Ask it to write multiple files at once

What is the expected behavior?

I assume writes should be sequential on Windows

Additional information

_No response_

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4 Comments

neavo · 5 months ago

same for me

Leitparadigma-X · 5 months ago

happens in the Windows Codex app too... would be great to have a fix

cogseed01 · 5 months ago

same problem

SebastianHindhedeAdvisoa · 5 months ago

Same would love a fix, this is incredibly annoying, bordering on making codex useless for me on windows