Jul 25 2016 11:34 AM
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 file paths that are too long - and the client isn't reporting an issue like the Windows version does, but rather, the client just crashes. The user doesn't notice the client crash, they assume all their files are uploaded, until they go to the web or try to sync on another computer and their files are not there.
Has anyone else encountered this issue with the Mac client, and does anyone know of a tool for Mac that will report invalid files/file paths that are too long that we can use as a remediation step prior to migrating files?
Thanks,
Craig
Jul 28 2016 12:38 PM
Jul 29 2016 01:40 AM
Jul 29 2016 01:41 AM
Jul 27 2017 05:56 AM - edited Jul 27 2017 06:11 AM
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.
Jul 27 2017 06:18 AM
@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.
Mar 16 2018 08:50 AM
I recommend LongPath Tool. Try it.