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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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  • Samir commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I support this strongly, legal organization names usually ar long, but internally use a shorter name. A configuration field to specify organization name to appear in onedrive and sharepoint root folder is a must.

  • Tom commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This was suggested more than 4 years ago and it has not been implemented. Very disappointed with Microsoft. The spaces in the folder name caused so many problems for my scripts and GIS programs. Please please fix this. Thanks!

  • Dan Wanyama commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I cant vote, but I agree with this suggestion. I want to rename my OneDrive because using the default folder name as an input folder in my scripts doesn't work, because of the spaces in the name.

  • S commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Tagging to this - control of this main OneDrive folder also for size. So can set the size of this folder to say 100MB and force people to use SYNC folders to Sharepoint and then not to use this folder as their personal network and files NEVER get placed on proper Sharepoint locations or on the network.

  • Fer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd also like to allow the folder name to be changed for multiple reasons. Unfortunately I can't click on the Vote button so I hope this counts

  • Daniel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My company just switched over from using Google Drive (which allows you to use any name) to One Drive. A lot of the tools that I have on my system need a path without spaces not to mention all the work changing all my configuration values over for EVERYTHING. This is unacceptable, please fix this bug

  • Jeff commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    its a folder you should be able to name it anything. that is all!

  • Bob Edwards commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I concur! Not a fan of long folder names. I am forced to not use OneDrive. Back to managing my code on my Lap Top and Desk Top.

  • Ev commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why Windows would even allow spaces, to begin with, is beyond me. We need the ability to remove all white space from the folder name.

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