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OneDrive NGSC for Mac crashes with invalid/long file names
Hi Craig, If you need to shorten many paths systematically, there is only 1 tool on the market the does this and that's Path Too Long Auto Fixer (http://pathtoolongautofixer.blogspot.com/). I know because I built this tool for my clients.
It scans for directories and filenames that are longer and 260 characters, and auto shortens them. You have options how the shortening process works, like removing Unicode spaces, hyphens/dashes, underscores and punctuations. Try working demo.
MarkPahulje wrote:Hi Craig, If you need to shorten many paths systematically, there is only 1 tool on the market the does this Path Too Long Auto Fixer (http://pathtoolongautofixer.blogspot.com/). It scans for directories and filenames that are longer and 260 characters, and auto shortens them. You have options how the shortening process works, like removing Unicode spaces, hyphens/dashes, underscores and punctuations. Try working demo.
No offence but I seriously doubt that there is "only 1 tool on the market" that can shorten pathnames. My guess is there are tons of scripts that can do the same.
I would also be very careful to just shorten the names of directories and files automatically. You'll break an awful lot of things.
But Craig cannot use this tool anyway because it only runs in Windows. Craig uses macOS.
