What I have found so far: Inside the Jenkins management you can change the Workspace directory.
1. http://MY_HOST/Jenkins/configure 2. Right under the home directory into advanced button. 3. Workspace Root Directory ${JENKINS_HOME}/workspace/${ITEM_FULLNAME} you could change it for something short indeed like D:/work I had the same problems with the zip archiving under Windows. The 256 char path limits is a pain. Keep your job project short, use description for more info. Try to avoid too many job folder under Windows since it does create 2 folder deep /job/name every time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/fef85f6b-90a8-4215-86c2-73e6028518cb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.