Windows 10: I mapped a SharePoint to a driver. Folders are now showing up in some file paths

I mapped SharePoint to a driver and files after a certain point of going through the subfolders are just not showing up. I was under the assumption that character limits occurred around 260. The character count for these paths is 143 WITH spaces. I remapped the driver at one point to check if it would help but the issue is still showing. I am able to go onto explorer and open SharePoint and see the files, so they do exist. I do not know why they are not showing up!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Restore SharePoint mappings in Windows Explorer

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In my company we use a selfmade tool which makes a backup of network mappings, installed network printers, specific user settings, custom files/folders, ... We are now in a transition to Office 365 and SharePoint.

If you go via a web browser to a SharePoint Document Folder you have a button Sync. This button adds a link to the SharePoint Document Folder in your Windows Explorer.

My goal is to make a backup of these SharePoint links so that I easily can add these links back in Windows Explorer if a user gets a new computer (or in case computer must be reinstalled).

• I found out that these "SharePoint links" are stored in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OneDrive\Accounts
• I exported that branch out of the registry.
• Then I stopped the sync of the SharePoint Document Folders in my Windows Explorer so the links are gone.
• I than imported the registry keys but this does not show the SharePoint Document Folders in my Windows Explorer (even not after a restart)

Does someone know how to solve this?

 

SharePoint: Windows File Path Limit

I have found that syncing folders to SharePoint one-drive limits the file path character limit to 218 characters and it counts "space" as equal to 3 characters, encoded to %20. Please confirm if any other special character is encoded and will be taking more
space which eventually means the actual path is less than 218 characters.

Other Info:

OS: Windows 10 Pro

Office 365/SharePoint Online.

One-Drive: Build 18.151.0729.0012

 

Mapping a List with Sharepoint

I'm trying to map a List for a client from SharePoint to file explorer. The issue is that the link I was provided to map is not a folder or a document; it is a list page, and the normal usual method of mapping a shared drive through file explorer isn't working,
because that method doesn't like the .aspx ending.

Other advice has been to go to SharePoint via Internet Explorer and I should see a tab labelled "Library" and from there I can open it in File Explorer etc. I can't see that Library tab, because this particular item isn't a document or a folder, it's a List.
Elsewhere in SharePoint I can see the Library tab and can successfully open in File Explorer etc, because those other pages are actual documents.

Is there a way to connect to a List as a shared drive in File Explorer? My feeling is that this isn't a thing that can be done.

What you see when you are viewing a List:





What you see when you're viewing a collection of documents: