Filename Too Long - Lightroom Mirror Sync

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Epoch

Hi - first of all - thank you very much for this wonderful program!

I'm syncing (Mirror - Detect Moved Files) two Adobe Lightroom catalogue-folders from one HDD to another.
Usually we have no problem but this time I'm getting the following error:
Unable to move "T:\PHOTODRIVE 10 NEW SHARE\Michael & Michellin Wedding Celebration 22nd December 2016\RecycleBin.ffs_tmp\Michael & Michellin Wedding Celebration 22nd December 2016 Previews.lrdata\0\0009" to the recycle bin.

Error during "PerformOperations" for item:
"<unknown file>"
HRESULT: 0x8007006f, The file name is too long.
''T'' is the right hand side folder.

I have tried running as admin, restarting & of course, clicking ignore. If I ignore and try to mirror or update FFS says Syncing 10,000 files but 0 bytes are transferring. Bascially nothing happens.

I have unselected the folders with the Preview & RecycleBin.ffs & then it syncs but ideally I need the Preview folders to sync too.
I'm guessing there's no solution if it's a Windows 10 limitation but to manual copy the entire parent folder but it's 140GB & I will have to do that several times a day!

Win 10 64 bit
Latest version of FFS.

Thank you so much for your time & effort!
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Zenju

You could use "Versioning" instead of the Windows Recycle bin, which doesn't have file name length limitations:
https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=versioning
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Epoch

It appears to have worked - thanks so much Zenju!
Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!