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Now possible to have folder and file paths longer than 256 characters within One Drive?

Is it now possible to have folder and file paths longer than 256 characters within One Drive for Office 365?


I know in the past the overall path character limit was around 256 characters but I'm not sure if the overall path and filename character limit can now be longer than 256 characters.

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...but I'm not sure why you would want to have a file path that is that long!

not sure what he does, but I work in biopharma and have hit this issue a number of times with folks handling clinical trial
documents.  a file comes in from 3rd parties that have long names and are in folders several levels deep then get extracted to a folder structure that is already a few levels deep because of the highly detailed folder structure needed and have seen some of these paths hit 300+ characters
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Yes that happens in my organization quite often as well.
I was told that some law firms intentionally create long file & path names to impede opposing counsel if ordered to hand files over during the discovery process.
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