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Brass Contributor

Feb 27, 2018

Long file paths in OneDrive for Business

My tenant has the long file paths now so I can go beyond the 255 characters. I altered my registry to extend the path length, and that also works. But I cannot save a file via the SaveAs feature th...

Robert James Reber

Brass Contributor

Mar 01, 2018

Thanks Vasil,

I am not sure what you mean all opt-in. Longpaths work in the tenant, and LongPaths work on my Win10 PC with the reg dink. What doesn't work is the Word app when I try to save a file to a path longer than 260 characters. So all my research tells me the manifest must contain a line called LongFilePathAware, or something to that affect. I am not sure where I need to go to alter that for Word, or Office or OneDrive for Business. Because this feature is out now, I would expect MS to include this in the Office suite? If opting in means alter the manifest, could that location be provided for Office and OneDrive so I could do that myself?

VasilMichev

MVP

Mar 01, 2018

Means you need to enable the corresponding options/reg keys in Office, ODFB, Windows, for proper support.

Robert James Reber
Brass Contributor
Mar 29, 2018
I asked our TAM about this and where to find and alter the Office products. I was informed this is something MS is working on and the Office suite will take advantage of the extended paths in a future version update of Office.

The fix is expected to be released in the build version 16.0.9209.1000+.