Unable To Rename A Pdf File

[Elvisa Schimke]

Icreated a copy of a file in my dropbox folder using the Macos Finder. However, I am now unable to rename the new file via the Finder. I can rename via the command line (`mv` command), but that's not really a great situation.

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If so that limitation is from Windows itself, not Dropbox. There is a limit on how long file folder paths can be and so if its longer than that it wont sync/open or work etc. There is no way round that except shrinking the whole path (ie. starting at C:\) and seeing what you can rename to make it smaller.

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Previously, there was no issue with the file name length. However after a re-install of the OS (other issue...) when the file store location was selected, Dropbox added a duplicate named sub directory. Now, many files are showing "file name too long" errors.

What is more, I am not able to rename the files "in place" to a shorter truncated name (to accommodate the duplicate sub-directory length mentioned above), and cannot open files with out extra steps (>Moving the file to the desktop or something, >>renaming the file, and >>>placing the file back in it's original location).

Also, I'm concerned that other users in our group may be having similar issues and do not understand the error and are not able to communicate the error for help...

It seems that it is only with files located in Dropbox, that I am not able to: "Shorten the File Name" - In Place...

(Note: I have a lot of data - all stored in the Cloud AND Locally - I would like to avoid downloading all that data again, if possible... (Lots of bandwidth usage, It's a lot of writing on the SSD, and the time is a concern.

Hi,

Just received a message from a User who is trying to rename of Folder on their site.

They are in the Owners group but get 'Access Denied' They requested access and the request was sent to them and they approved the request but still unable to rename the folder...

Any ideas why this could occur???

@LawanIdriss

Thank you for your prompt reply.

I'm still unsure why the Access Denied message appeared when they were in the Owners permission group and have been for a while now??

Try following the steps given here to go to Advanced permissions settings for the specific folder in SharePoint document library: How to create unique permission level in SharePoint Document Library?

Make sure user has Edit or Full control permissions on the folder so that they can rename it (somehow "delete" permissions are also required to rename folders/files in SharePoint - it comes automatically with Edit & Full control permissions).

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Interestingly, if I rename a Direct Query from "Query1" to "Query2", the error references "Query1" in the message. It is almost like Power BI is no longer able to cleanly modify my Direct Queries. I can rename Import queries in the same file with no issues.

@pranit828 @Anonymous I've started getting the same error just recently too - end of Aug 2020.

I have a pbix file I've been using for years, and while I haven't touched it in a few weeks, when I opened it up to make a small tweak the other day I started hitting the same thing.

Right after opening the file if I click Refresh (all queries), everything works and everything refreshes ok.

When I add/delete anything in the model from the Query Editor (eg: open Query Editor and deselect "Enable Load" on a single query) then when I Close & Apply the changes I get this error.

I've also noticed somethign else odd, in the Query Editor view the data preview's never seem to load, they always just spin and spin, this is new it used to work. A couple times in all my testing for this new issue they started working, but I'm not quite sure what I did or didn't do. But today at least when I open the pbix, I can refresh-all and it works, but as soon as I open the query editor the previews don't ever complete. (and I never see it going to SQL when I use SQL profiler on the datasource either, even if I clear the caches).

My data source is a SQL server, I have a single data source for all the queries in the file, I do mix and match sql queries (= Sql.Database ... advanced queries) and (= Source[Schema="dbo",Item="TABLENAME"][Data]) basic select * type results)

My model has like 60 queries in it, I haven't had the heart to try and duplicate it 100% yet, but I have tried to delete essentially all my queries to see if there was one "corrupt" one, but that didn't seem to help.

@lamard Thanks for your info on this thread, it's been helpful to know that there was/is a known bug causing this. I am running the lastest: Version: 2.86.727.0 64-bit (October 2020), and I am hitting this same wall. Could you possibly share a URL to where this bug is reported so we can follow its progress?

I have been using VMware Workstation for years, the host system is Windows 10, the virtual machine works under Windows 7, where I have Delphi 10.3 installed. It always worked well. External project and library files are on a disk shared by VMware mechanism called "Shared folders", in the virtual machine they are available as a network disk, which I map to the letter D:\

A month ago I built a new computer on Ryzen, and installed Ubuntu as the host system. Under Ubuntu I installed VMware Workstation and moved a virtual machine containing Delphi from the old computer. I've converted the disk file system with projects and libraries from NTFS to Ext4 and it's also shared by "Shared folders". Everything was ok until it turned out that I couldn't make a change in Spring.inc file from Delphi level. But for example, by notepad the change was successful. I couldn't find an explanation, so I worked until now.

It seems that the internal (Delphi) file versioning mechanism has some problem with this file. But I've been editing other files from the same project for a month now and I haven't had such problems (except for Spring.inc - outside the project).

This is not a problem of permissions in the Ext4 file system, because I checked and the permissions are identical with all the project files. I also checked the file edition with notepad and rename with move with shell command "mv" - also without any problem.

I have seen problems with shared folders in VMware when files are touched by the VM - somtimes they cannot be deleted from the hist until I restart the guest OS. I switched to local copies inside the VM and use the source control system to synchronize, so the problem is no longer existent.

I've worked with Shared Folders for a decade and never had such a problem, no problem at all. Only now (after migrate do Ubuntu and Ext4) the problems have come to light, but the problem is clearly in Delphi and not in file locks, because as I wrote other tools they can modify and move these files without any problem.

After a few hours of fighting I discovered the cause of the problems... Maybe somebody will meet with it one day and I'll give you a solution.

As I wrote I migrated from Windows to Ubuntu and converted the disk from NTFS to Ext4. As you know Linux systems are case sensitive and so is Ext4.

Although the files had the correct name, it turned out that in the dpr and dproj files the paths to some files sometimes had the name "\Services\" and sometimes "\services\" and that was the reason.

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