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Pn1995
Aug 07, 2020Brass Contributor
Apple Mac file migration to Onedrive/Sharepoint
Hi We want to move our Apple Mac files to Office365 Sharepoint. We thought we could just copy them onto the local Onedrive and they would copy up, however we have hundreds of errors. It looks lik...
harveer singh
Aug 08, 2020Steel Contributor
Hey Pn1995,
Not a mac user, but i see your pain as onedrive won't fix the files automatically for you. I have heard of a tool on itunes called name mangler. There is way to do it via terminal as well but I would say use it with caution, testing out on a few files, as there is always a risk of ending up changing the file extensions while renaming files. Refer the following article for characters you need to rename :
Couple of other post you might be interested in :
https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/22747/script-to-fix-onedrive-file-folder-path-errors
https://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/renaming-magically-with-zmv
Thanks