Thursday, September 27, 2018

Workaround for removing a deep folder structure in SharePoint

Deep water signage

I had a client which were not able to delete a deep folder structure from SharePoint which I’m guessing was synced in via OneDrive.

The error they got when trying to delete anything in the structure was “Error Code: 6404” – not a very descriptive error.

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I tried all sorts of API’s, but having worked with SharePoint and Windows for a while I figured this had to do with a total path being too long, and I was correct.

In the end I renamed every single folder to “a”, just one character, and then the total path length was short enough for SharePoint Online, and the structure deleted nicely.

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