Sharepoint Online - Files not uploading?

[satanicguardian]

Hi guys, anyone know why I get this issue? It's very annoying cause I need to get these files uploaded!

 

[HungryHippos]

Well it looks like it's coming right back from the Server with that, I would raise to the Support teams.

 

[Madmrcopper]

Symbols in the file names http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joelo/archi...aracter-restrictions-and-recommendations.aspx

 

[satanicguardian]

Eurgh they really need to fix sharepoint to accept odd characters, I had to spend the best part of 5 hours changing all the ampersands in my MD's files to the word 'and' had no other way around it XD there were a LOT of ampersands! :c

 

[chriscubed]

Might be too late for you now, but a decent file renaming program can find and replace, just find & symbols and replace with "and".

 

[Vince]

If I remember rightly there is also a setting in central admin which deals with max file size as well as file types, for example a default install will not allow certain file types such as access database files.

Special characters will also do it. There is a way for checking special characters when uploading using a custom form you can use SharePoint designer and the following validation expression:

ValidationExpression="^(a-z|A-Z|0-9)*[^#$%^&*()']*$"

You can then use workflow to edit these on the fly before upload. It's been a while since I worked with SharePoint and after 7 years developing on it I must admit that I kinda miss it - Such a good and flexible platform.

 

[satanicguardian]

I gave up using that stupid 100 files at a time uploaded btw I managed to get sharepoint open in explorer view and creating favourite links, so I can just open it from my desktop as a network folder, lets me upload using my full 8mb/s upstream speed