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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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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I mean, seriously, SPACES IN FOLDER NAMES ARE ABAD IDEA! If the company name is something that MUST appear and cannot be given by the user, then how about: OneDriveCompanyName?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Many programs don't allow you to use folders with spaces or other characters in the path. Since I can't change the name I can't use my One Drive with these products. Very inconvenient.

  • user commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I support this very strongly!
    Due to the fixed whitespaces in the name I cannot save my programming files to Onedrive Bussiness, which is problematic!

  • Dennis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Pls fix this! Whitespaces are not workable. Folder names should be decided by the user and not by the designer that created the onedrive app.

  • Tanat commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's also mess with many program since it has "space" inside folder name. I can't believe that we still have the same issue after 5 years of complain.

  • Craig commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please improve this - impacts if folder and file names are long as well

  • Cecil. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Coming from office 2013 to office365 caused a GIANT headache for us. Suddenly 100's of files will not open because "file not found" error.

    The file is there the path with the onedrive URL adds about 30 characters to everything and suddenly its too long.

    Why is it even on 255 char limit in the first place!? Lots of info out there says it should support 400+characters.
    It's already 2021 and you want us to stick to windows 98 limits?!

    FIX IT!!!!!!!!!

  • Dave Berndt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is very annoying as anybody with a long company name can testify. Add to it, long user names and you hit filename limits quickly.

    What would be nice is for an Admin to set an abbreviation that is used globally. Most companies with long or multi-word names will have a shortened or abbreviated name. e.g, International Business Machines. In the Org Settings in 365 Admin Center the Administrator would enter the ShortName: IBM..... for example

  • 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.

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