diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a891565..ce2e840 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+## Version 0.13.5 [2023-05-06]
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+ * Shorten the path lengths of the RStudio Server `server-data-dir` and
+   database `directory` folders by 17 characters.
+
+
 ## Version 0.13.4 [2023-04-17]
 
 ### New Features
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 07c7c64..577cb32 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -333,12 +333,12 @@ As before, the RStudio Server is available at
 
 ```sh
 $ cd /path/to/software
-$ curl -L -O https://github.com/UCSF-CBI/rstudio-server-controller/archive/refs/tags/0.13.4.tar.gz
-$ tar xf 0.13.4.tar.gz
-$ PATH=/path/to/softwarerstudio-server-controller-0.13.4/bin:$PATH
+$ curl -L -O https://github.com/UCSF-CBI/rstudio-server-controller/archive/refs/tags/0.13.5.tar.gz
+$ tar xf 0.13.5.tar.gz
+$ PATH=/path/to/softwarerstudio-server-controller-0.13.5/bin:$PATH
 $ export PATH
 $ rsc --version
-0.13.4
+0.13.5
 ```
 
 To verify that the tool can find R and the RStudio Server executables,
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ call:
 
 ```sh
 $ rsc --version --full
-rsc: 0.13.4
+rsc: 0.13.5
 RStudio Server: 2023.03.0+386 (Cherry Blossom) for Linux [/path/to/rstudio-server/bin/rstudio-server]
 R: 4.2.3 (2023-03-15) -- "Shortstop Beagle" [/path/to/R/bin/R]
 ```
diff --git a/bin/rsc b/bin/rsc
index a926070..682f2cc 100755
--- a/bin/rsc
+++ b/bin/rsc
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 ###  rsc config --full
 ###  rsc log
 ###
-### Version: 0.13.4
+### Version: 0.13.5
 ### Copyright: Henrik Bengtsson (2022-2023) and Harry Putnam (2022)
 ### License: ISC
 
@@ -95,26 +95,31 @@ source "${incl}/system.sh"
 # =========================================================================
 # Utility functions
 # =========================================================================
-## If the length of '$HOME/.config' is 40 characters or more, we get an
-## 'ERROR Unexpected exception: File name too long [system:36]; LOGGED
+## If the length of the default
+## '$server_data_dir/rstudio-rserver/session-server-rpc.socket', where
+## server_data_="$HOME/.config/rsc/run/a", is 108 symbols or more, we get
+## an 'ERROR Unexpected exception: File name too long [system:36]; LOGGED
 ## FROM: int main(int, char* const*) src/cpp/server/ServerMain.cpp:941'.
 ## This errors occurs in
 ## <https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/blob/09de542e287bdbfb6e90babf439eb1e2f9658f05/src/cpp/server/session/ServerSessionRpc.cpp#L229>
 ## when serverRpcSocketPath() returns a FilePath with an absolute path
-## longer than 108 characters, e.g. /a/very/long/path/to/home/alice/.config/rsc/var/run/rstudio-server/rstudio-rserver/session-server-rpc.socket
+## longer than 107 characters. Thus, if '$server_data_dir' has more than
+## 65 characters, we hit this bug.  Using the default, this means that
+## user with a $HOME folder with more than 47 characters will be affected
+## by this bug.
 ## /HB 2023-04-17
-post_mortem_too_long_config_dir() {
+post_mortem_too_long_server_data_dir() {
     local path
-    path=$(config_dir)
-    if [[ ${#path} -ge 40 ]]; then
-        echo "Post-mortem analysis: The RStudio Server Controller configuration folder ($path) has ${#path} characters. A configuration folder with more than 40 characters will likely not work with RStudio Server version after 2022.02.4-500. Here we are using version $(rserver_version). Try setting 'export _RSC_RSERVER_DATA_DIR_=\"\$(mktemp -d)\"' before calling 'rsc start' as a workaround."
+    path=$(rserver_data_dir)
+    if [[ ${#path} -ge 66 ]]; then
+        echo "Post-mortem analysis: The RStudio Server 'server-data-dir' folder ($path) has ${#path} characters, which is more than 65 and will therefore not work with RStudio Server version after 2022.02.4-500. Try setting 'export _RSC_RSERVER_DATA_DIR_=\"\$(mktemp -d)\"' before calling 'rsc start' as a workaround."
     fi
 }
 
 function rsc_error {
     local msg extra
     msg="$* This happened with rsc $(version), RStudio Server $(rserver_version_string) [$(rserver_path)], and R $(r_version_string) [$(r_path)]."
-    extra=$(post_mortem_too_long_config_dir)
+    extra=$(post_mortem_too_long_server_data_dir)
     if [[ -n ${extra} ]]; then
         msg="${msg} ${extra}"
     fi
@@ -227,7 +232,7 @@ function make_config_dir {
     local datadir
     
     path=$(config_dir)
-    mkdir -p "${path}"/{run,tmp,var/lib/rstudio-server}
+    mkdir -p "${path}"/{lib,run,tmp}
     secure_dir "${path}"
     
     datadir=$(rserver_data_dir)
@@ -372,7 +377,8 @@ function make_database_conf {
     assert_dir_exists "${workdir}"
     {
         echo "provider=sqlite"
-        echo "directory=${workdir}/var/lib/rstudio-server"
+        ## Default: /var/lib/rstudio-server
+        echo "directory=${workdir}/lib"
     } > "${workdir}/database.conf"
 }
 
@@ -870,7 +876,8 @@ function rserver_data_dir {
 
     if [[ -z ${_RSC_RSERVER_DATA_DIR_} ]]; then
         workdir=$(config_dir)
-        path="${workdir}/var/run/rstudio-server"
+        ## Default: /var/run/rstudio-server
+        path="${workdir}/run"
     else
         mdebug "_RSC_RSERVER_DATA_DIR_=${_RSC_RSERVER_DATA_DIR_}"
         path=${_RSC_RSERVER_DATA_DIR_:?}
@@ -878,7 +885,7 @@ function rserver_data_dir {
         ## WORKAROUND: This is needed to so that
         ## secure_dir "$(dirname "$(rserver_data_dir)")"
         ## is guaranteed to work, i.e. we need to append a sub folder
-        path=${path}/secure
+        path=${path}/a
     fi
     
     mdebug "rserver_data_dir(): ${path}"