Website publish failing due to file path being too long

Question

I am trying to publish a Website project from a vendor that has ridiculously long paths to some of its files. When publishing, the error is:

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Answer 1

The answer of Jason Beck worked to me with a small change. To avoid the error "The IntermediateOutputPath must end with a trailing slash." use the "\" at the end of the path: ..\Temp\

Your "CONFIG_PUBLISH_FILE.pubxml" should look like this (The "..." omits other configuration that you file may have): ... ... ..\Temp\ ...