{"id":13901,"date":"2016-03-18T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13901"},"modified":"2016-06-16T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:40:14","slug":"onedrive-filename-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/18\/onedrive-filename-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"OneDrive Filename Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob LeVitus<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

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The OneDrive menu reports 3,803 problems, and has been reporting them for over a month. The problem is that when I select View Details, it crashes and leaves a broad white stripe across my display that can only be eliminated by Force Quitting OneDrive.<\/p>\r\n

I think it’s fair to say OneDrive is useless to me until this bug is squashed.<\/p>\r\n

So, I wrote to Microsoft technical support about the issue on February 9 providing logs, screen shots, and a complete description. It took a month but I finally got an answer. Not a solution, mind you, but at least I got an answer.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

In short<\/a>, OneDrive has restrictions<\/a> on the characters that can be in your filenames, and the total path<\/em> length must be fewer than 255 characters. Nobody seems to be able to build a better shared folder than Dropbox.<\/p>\r\n

Update (2016-04-10): Arq Backup<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

PSA: OneDrive allows a max of 150,000 items in a folder. (This limit isn’t mentioned in their documentation anywhere that I can find.)<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob LeVitus: The OneDrive menu reports 3,803 problems, and has been reporting them for over a month. The problem is that when I select View Details, it crashes and leaves a broad white stripe across my display that can only be eliminated by Force Quitting OneDrive. I think it’s fair to say OneDrive is useless to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,30,32,1199,836,269],"class_list":["post-13901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-onedrive","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14824,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions\/14824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}