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It was going to be so great! Word and Excel would auto-save my files while I work.

I prepared to use OneDrive for Business as the only place for my files and pictures. During setup, I connected my laptop to Office 365 (technically Azure Active Directory), so I log in with my Office 365 business account. Although it had problems in the past, now the Windows app is stable and fast I’ve got lots of storage space included with my Office 365 subscription and OneDrive for Business includes features at no charge that cost extra from other services.

This article was last updated on 13th July 2016.And it should have been a great relationship! There are lots of reasons to love OneDrive for Business.

A free trial of Files To Go is available for you to try today. Files To Go, our file migration tool for Office 365, automatically identifies files with paths that are too long and skips them so that your migration to OneDrive for Business will not be interrupted. When you have hundreds of even thousands of files with long paths it may become overwhelming trying to fix up them up so you can get your files synced to OneDrive for Business. Or you can move the file to a different folder that has a shorter path length. If renaming the file is not an option an alternative is to rename the folder that the file resides to reduce its length. The dialog shown by the onedrive.exe sync tool advises how many characters need to be removed from the file path for it to sync. To resolve the long path issue and sync your file you will need to rename it to reduce the length of the file name to be within the 260 character URL length limit of OneDrive for Business.

The dialog that is shown when you create a file with a long path.

If the file you have created in your locally synced OneDrive for Business folder would exceed the 260 URL path length limitation then the sync tool will show this error. OneDrive for Business has a maximum URL path length of 260 characters. When syncing your OneDrive for Business with the Microsoft OneDrive sync tool "onedrive.exe" you may receive an error "We Can't Sync This Item Because The Path Is Too Long". Microsoft OneDrive for Business - onedrive.exe Sync Tool