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Problem opening (desktop)word docs in Onedrive (does work when opened via ODFB online)
corvus71The limit is 259 (218 for Excel).
However, based on my experience, it's really difficult to advise about an exact limit. On the filesystem a space counts as 1 character. The collaborative editing URL encodes it to %20, so 3 characters. Plus the difference in %userprofile% path lengths that you mentioned can vary the length by several characters between users.
The hardest part for us isn't technically the limit. It's the ambiguity which makes it impossible to explain to regular users. If all of the Office apps would give an error when a user tries to use a path + filename that exceeds the limit, it's be much easier to deal with IMO.
I don't have any way of asking for the situation to be improved and, judging by the volume of similar complaints / questions I see online, I'm guessing it's a tough problem for them to solve.
Hopefully the info I gave is enough that you can do some additional testing and get an idea of what the limits are. Good luck!
Our company also has this problem. No Onedrive office documents can be opened via the explorer anymore. However, via the Onedrive online display or a local copy, without using Onedrive is working. Is there a solution for this problem?
Do you mean NONE whatsoever? Indendant of the path length? In that case it must be something else...
Yes we tested a custom shorter path length/filename. That works.
But this problem occurs in last months. Before we didn't had the issues. This problem must be solved.
We can not simple shorten all the office file names from all office documents from the past. Why is this new problem happening?
