
# Must run in terminal as: sudo zsh scriptname.The champions of Inkshadow and the teams at MSI have more in common than you'd think. # overlong path names and to correct them to help allow smooth # for any illegal characters, leading or trailing spaces and # Script to check user's OneDrive folders and files Please mind it does run in zsh #!/bin/zsh What is up with display text encoding on the forums? I included the screengrab because if you copy paste the snipped below, it will most certainly return a bad pattern error from zmv ``` Now we just need wrap it up into a script to make it easy for end users to run in Self-Service and test it thoroughly. OneDrive tells them the names are illegal, but it doesn't really do a very good job of telling them where the files are past the top level.Īfter running this command, sync errors disappeared. I used this command for a case where user has three four, even 5 levels deep with thousands of instances of illegals. When you run the command from the top level of a user's OneDrive Sync folder it will recursively remove every single illegal character and replace those characters with underscore. First you have to switch to zsh, then load zmv. First time I botched the regular expression and forgot to "allow" the "." character, so the command replaced all dots with underscores (xx.jpeg became xx_jpeg) and destroyed Finder file associations.you don't want that!! I have it set up to replace them with underscores. Run this at the top level of your user's OneDrive Folder and it will fix illegal characters. What did work (for file and folder names with illegal characters), is the miracle of zmv. I've tested several scripts that were posted here and none of them worked very well. Remember that total path length of deeply nested files might be problematic as well. Instead it simply errors out and forces the user to find and fix all their own illegal filenames.
Name mangler faq for mac#
Microsoft OneDrive Sync Client for Mac doesn't appear to be able to fix filenames yet. HOpefully this works out and could be helpful to the larger Jamf community. With OneDrive being so new for Mac users I can see how many will have this issue. For example if "/" was replaced with "-" we could have example/1.doc changed to example-1.doc which may already exist?
Name mangler faq how to#
Name mangler faq software#
Rather than have them do this manually, or buy third party software we decided to write some scripts that will find all these illegal characters/names and change them.

We have some users who have all kinds of MS illegal characters in their file names and folder names.


We are working on a script that will fix file naming issues for users new to OneDrive.
