Microsoft OneDrive and saving files

[wood1e2]

Hi,

Many many years ago I had a long chat with a man at Microsoft as some of my files were not syncing/being saved to OneDrive.

I found out it was because it is connected to SharePoint and that cannot handle long file names, or various different file extensions, or even files with no extensions.

Is this still the case? Has the restrictions on file naming, and extensions been lifted?

 

[zigojacko]

That's an OS issue not a OneDrive issue I would suspect.

For example, Windows itself has a character limitation on filenames. They may exist on the system if packaged with software etc but as you try and rename them or sync them to the cloud for example, it will complain about the file name length.

 

[nahosting]

No change yet.
https://support.office.com/en-gb/ar...8e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa#filenamepathlengths

 

[Nico Albrecht]

For example, Windows itself has a character limitation on filenames.

No it doesn't! The OS doesn't matter. All that matters is the file system the operating system is using to address the binary data. Newer Windows system with a tweak should easily handle file names up to 32,767 characters.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

For one drive stability I'd strongly recommend setting connections speed limits manually to an appropriate value based on your internet connections. Running the default setting makes it quite unstable based on our experience. If you shared files from Apple OS X that could explain other issues as they barely follow good practise and logic in their file system which causes problems with cross sharing.

 

[zigojacko]

No it doesn't! The OS doesn't matter. All that matters is the file system the operating system is using to address the binary data. Newer Windows system with a tweak should easily handle file names up to 32,767 characters.

Yes. Filesystem then sorry, that's what I was getting at.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

Yes. Filesystem then sorry, that's what I was getting at.

I know was just bored.

 

[DontAsk]

That's an OS issue not a OneDrive issue I would suspect.

Neither. As the OP says, it's a sharepoint issue.

 

[Craig Bird]

Its a sharepoint issue and its not just filenames is more commonly for path lengths - We are doing a 100+ user migration for a client right now, and this is one of the biggest complexities of the migration, this can be very manual!

 

[oaoural]

I also had this problem, but then it disappeared. How and where I did not understand

 

[ffox]

One drive file path length has been steadily increasing over the last few years. It now stands, I believe, at 400 characters.

@wood1e2 If I remember right you do web dev and some are your file paths are very long.

I successfully store all of my web dev on one drive or business and the longest path I have is around 130 characters. I also know that some Apache file structures are abysmal and can run to hundreds of characters in length.

There are also issues with characters that SP cannot handle, so check you file paths for -

~ " # % & * : < > ? / \ { | }.

Hope this helps

 

[wood1e2]

Sorry for the delay in responding.

many thanks for all the responses... That has been most helpful.

Shame MS never solved the problem. I am currently looking at having my 'dropbox/OneDrive' and migrate away from paid for Dropbox.

Then again I said the same 5 years ago and I haven't got around to doing it!!

Once again many thanks

 

[oaoural]

Once again many thanks

Pretty boy, DropBox is also a theme

 

[wood1e2]

@oaoural - not sure what you mean!?!