Allow me to rename my onedrive folder name. The nomenclature "OneDrive - Your Company Name" is unnecessarily long
The file path limit of 256 characters is very limiting and annoying in and of itself. It is crazy that the mandatory folder name for the OneDrive for business folder is "OneDrive - Your Business Name". For my business, this adds on almost 20 characters! I already have a cloud service and when I tried to drag my folders over, many files will not sync simply because of this long folder name. I am forced to go back and re-work my folder and file structure.
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Boris Panno
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I add myself to this request, due to space problems in the folder name. Always the spaces and the special characters create problems for many software, I don't understand why this choice.
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Ian Biddle
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It would be nice if they would allow the icon name to be changed. Although Microsoft never listen so it just will never happen.
Its a similar thing on one note you can not create a section group from the web interface. Thousands ask for that ability but it will also never happen.
Eventually due to lack of working features they loose customers for a product, then they will drop that product and wonder why people do not use it.
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Anonymous
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windows Defendant Security
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Anonymous
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I cannot use many of my GIS scripts if there is a space in the OneDrive file name. This makes OneDrive useless for my business purposes. I get that you're awfully proud of OneDrive, but your letting your marketing department make decisions that shouldn't be their's to make.
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Tung Milan
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Please make this happen. I can't believe a company like Microsoft forced this on its users. Spaces in folder name kill many of my scripts. Thank you!
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Skwiza
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PLENTY reasons to be able to rename my OneDrive folder!
Multiple accounts / subscriptions with employees working across the board - now the drives have the same "Name" ...
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José Zaldaña
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Fix my account please I can't recovered my old files and documents
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David Johnstone
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You used to be able change the OneDrive folder, and select any folder to use with OneDrive.
Forcing you to use the Company name as part of Directory name is not working for me. We are only one company and we know who we are.
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Andrea
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I need to remove blank spaces in the path OneDrive - CompanyName
Absurd we can't rename the folder. -
Mark
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Fix the dang file character length. This is holding us back from fully utilizing OneDrive. This has been a recurring issue since 2014 posts i have seen. Come on folks.
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Anonymous
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some commads not workiing if total path is large. must allow to change
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Wojciech
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The function is extremely necessary. Please add as soon as possible. Often, customers have long names of their organizations. This is one of the questions that comes back to us with every new customer. I'm looking forward.
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Horace Yip
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The long folder name is a BIG blocker for usability for so many users. The fix is probably very simple. Please get this done rather than asking customers to come here and voice out their frustration!
Otherwise, fix the 256 character limitation for file path.
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Carol OConnor
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I also am hoping to use OneDrive for a company that is transitioning to all O365 tools, but some people have to access one drive from more than one user and is is nearly impossible to keep straight which is which when restricted to (1), (2) after the name to differentiate. This makes OneDrive for business relatively unusable for organizations.
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Anonymous
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Please allow me to change the OneDrive for business folder name on my local drive. I have several accounts under my company and some people log in to multiple onedrive folders. Onedrive - Company Name(1), OnDrive - Company Name(2) pretty much sucks.
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foadsf
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It must be a cause of shame for microsoft to come up with such a ****** software. apart from all other issues that OneDrive causing now I'm not able to run many of the programs inside the WSL just because my school name has spaces in it.
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Vincent van der Vlis
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Please allow me to change the OneDrive for business folder name on my local drive.
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Anonymous
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The folder name is too long. It’s very unfriendly to programmers. Our school name is more than 30 letters long, and it include spaces, typing this directory name everyday when I program is very annoying
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Stef Korson
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This limitation is very frustrating. Makes certain document library folders completely unusable due to a ridiculously long name. My company already has a long name with non-standard characters, then users create a library with a long name as well. Result = absolutely no chance of this working properly.
Come on Microsoft, this is such a basic feature of renaming a folder and competing products do not suffer from this limitation. -
Darryl Rowe
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Indeed. How about just naming the folder 1D or 1Drv it is STUPID in 2017 that Windows still balks at pathnames longer than 260 characters. FORCE everyone to use 8.3 filenames and maybe 8 character paths if you're going to do that. <mutter, mutter, mutter>
