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Craig Brown
Jul 25, 2016Brass Contributor
OneDrive NGSC for Mac crashes with invalid/long file names
Hi All, We are in the midst of rolling out OneDrive for Business to our users. I'm finding that, with the Mac NGSC client, my users are placing files/folders with either invalid characters or fil...
Alexander Forst-Rakoczy
Jul 29, 2016Brass Contributor
Even if you had such a tool (you could write a script that checks file names and path lengths) you would have to use it for EVERY new file that is stored on OD4B. Better solution: * educate your users about the limitiations and best practices. You CAN use most of the special characters in OS X but you are not advised to do so if you intend to use the files in other systems. ** https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3125202 ** https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202808 * provide meaningful error messages in OD4B instead of crashing (this means you, Microsoft!)
- Alexander Forst-RakoczyJul 29, 2016Brass ContributorAnd this crappy platform doesn't honour paragraphs!!!