onedrive for business vs invalid char of lock file

[cansato]

Hi

I use windows 8.1 and onedrive for business. I have a folder in my pc that sync with onedrive for business. Everytime I open a file that is stored in this folder, the lock file is created and onedrive popup a message “Name: .~lock.myfile.xlsx# / Error: the name or type isn’t allowed. Resolution: remove the item from your OndeDrive folder. For info…”.

The problem is invalid characters in file name: “~” and “#”.

This link explains these limitations for file name:

Restrictions and limitations in OneDrive and SharePoint

How can I get a solution for this invalid characteres?

Carlos Sato

[mariosv]

Related information: Disable file locking in LibreOffice on Windows - #5 by oweng

edited 20160621

Maybe Microsoft doesn’t want the people working directly on OneDrive with desktop app, if I’m not wrong even the MSOffice lock files has a “~”, perhaps their cloud programs use different names or mechanism to lock.

[cansato]

I saw these posts. None can help me.

Onedrive doesn’t accept chars “~” and “#” in the file name.

I don’t want to disable “lock system”. I think the LO should have another way to set the file name for the lock system to allow work on the onedrive synchronized folders.

[mariosv]

Have you ask to Onedrive why they don’t allow those characters?

[marshall1727]

Hi,
did you found any solution?
It is very confusing for general user to receive the system message that the file could not be saved.
thx,
m1727