I'm seriously so over it. What was supposed to be a simple task of uploading ONE (1) map to ArcGIS Online has now become hours of me raging at my computer. I first tried to reduce the path length for one of my layers. I renamed everything one by one and moved my files to a temporary folder as directed by the help page. Nothing worked until I changed the geodatabase name. But once I did that, almost every single layer broke, and I can't repair most of them because they involved analyses that I didn't save as files. Like I had a buffer layer that I derived from a noise pollution raster that I converted to points and created three different buffers around based on noise intensity and merged together. That layer alone will take me at least an hour to recreate.
I don't even know what to do anymore. I'm so frustrated. I needed to have this project uploaded to ArcGIS tonight, but at this point I don't think it's gonna happen.