shortening...
moving...
restore...
Yep, LFN (handling in Windows) sucks.
I end up doing similar, a lot.
Advanced Renamer has a convenient
directory (in addition to the expected, file) renamer.
So if you have a path & files like:
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c:/tmp/gobbly-gook-this-is-way-to-long-for-windows/red.png
c:/tmp/gobbly-gook-this-is-way-to-long-for-windows/blue.png
c:/tmp/gobbly-gook-this-is-way-to-long-for-windows/green.png
c:/tmp/gobbly-gook-this-is-way-to-long-for-windows/show.png
drag the directory c:/tmp/goobly-gook-this-is-way-too-long-for-windows/ into AR & rename it, shorter.
(Most renamers would bring in the files, not necessarily the directories.
AR can do either or both.
You can do similar with Everything, but AR has better collision control.)