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Finding files with long paths that crash OneDrive
You can certainly generate a recursive list of files via PowerShell, even include a "path length" calculated property if needed. I'm sure there are sample scripts available online, look them up. If you cannot find anything, I'll circle back and post an example once I'm in front of a real PC.
This issue still exists and it has a lot of impact.
A college renamed a Word document to its entire first paragraph. What it silly, but this impacted the OneDrives of the entire team:
- OneDrives of team members started to exit without notification. Occasionally a "path too long" flashed by.
- OneDrives of team members lost track of synchronisation targets. Not just synchronisation status, but targets. On restarting, Onedrive began to do full downloads, upto several hundreds of thousands (indeed, 1E+5 .. 1E+6) of files.
