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Is there a log for identifying files that OneDrive automatically renames to resolve sync issues?
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Based on the following article underscore ( _ ) does not seem to be an invalid character: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/onedrive-can-rename-files-with-invalid-characters-99333564-c2ed-4e78-8936-7c773e958881
The .pdf and .docx in the screenshot represent the file extensions, not the filename. When the tray application is showing files that are successfully syncing I still see file extensions (such as .pdf and .docx) displayed for the successfully synced files.
My reading of the article is following should all be fine:
myfile.pdf (.pdf is the extension, not the filename)
my_file.pdf (underscore is ok)
my.file.pdf (not relevant to my screenshot but I think even this would be fine as the period prior to the file extension is not the final character in the filename)
However, the following would be expected to produce a sync issue
myfile..pdf (period at end of filename before the extension)
Onedrive is seeing the underscore character as an extension to word after the _, so you can try renaming file without the underscore to check if it would save the file.
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- What is causing you to believe that underscores are problematic for OneDrive? The article I linked in my previous post doesn't indicate there is any issues with underscores.
Furthermore, since my last post I've rebooted my computer and after reboot the 3 files in the screenshot appear to have now been uploaded without any manual renaming on my part or any auto-renaming from OneDrive. In addition OneDrive is no longer complaining about sync issues. So I don't really know what exactly it was complaining about in the first place. But the problem now is that OneDrive initially flagged hundreds of files for sync issues, and without access to a log I have no idea of knowing whether OneDrive auto-renamed any of the files to resolve the sync issues.