Excel's fullname property with OneDrive
I found a thread online which contained enough information to put something simple together to solve this. I actually implemented the solution in Ruby, but this is the VBA version:
Option Explicit
Private Function Local_Workbook_Name(ByRef wb As Workbook) As String
Dim Ctr As Long
Dim objShell As Object
Dim UserProfilePath As String
'Check if it looks like a OneDrive location
If InStr(1, wb.FullName, "https://", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
'Replace forward slashes with back slashes
Local_Workbook_Name = Replace(wb.FullName, "/", "\")
'Get environment path using vbscript
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
UserProfilePath = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%UserProfile%")
'Trim OneDrive designators
For Ctr = 1 To 4
Local_Workbook_Name = Mid(Local_Workbook_Name, InStr(Local_Workbook_Name, "\") + 1)
Next
'Construct the name
Local_Workbook_Name = UserProfilePath & "\OneDrive\" & Local_Workbook_Name
Else
Local_Workbook_Name = wb.FullName
End If
End Function
Private Sub testy()
MsgBox ActiveWorkbook.FullName & vbCrLf & Local_Workbook_Name(ActiveWorkbook)
End Sub
Horoman's version (2020-03-30) is good because it works on both private and commercial OneDrive. However it crashed on me because the line "LocalFullName = oneDrivePath & Application.PathSeparator & endFilePath" inserts a slash between oneDrivePath & endFilePath. Moreover, one should really try out paths "OneDriveCommercial" and "OneDriveConsumer" before "OneDrive". So here's the code that works for me:
Sub TestLocalFullName()
Debug.Print "URL: " & ActiveWorkbook.FullName
Debug.Print "Local: " & LocalFullName(ActiveWorkbook.FullName)
Debug.Print "Test: " & Dir(LocalFullName(ActiveWorkbook.FullName))
End Sub
Private Function LocalFullName$(ByVal fullPath$)
'Finds local path for a OneDrive file URL, using environment variables of OneDrive
'Reference https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33734706/excels-fullname-property-with-onedrive
'Authors: Philip Swannell 2019-01-14, MatChrupczalski 2019-05-19, Horoman 2020-03-29, P.G.Schild 2020-04-02
Dim ii&
Dim iPos&
Dim oneDrivePath$
Dim endFilePath$
If Left(fullPath, 8) = "https://" Then 'Possibly a OneDrive URL
If InStr(1, fullPath, "my.sharepoint.com") <> 0 Then 'Commercial OneDrive
'For commercial OneDrive, path looks like "https://companyName-my.sharepoint.com/personal/userName_domain_com/Documents" & file.FullName)
'Find "/Documents" in string and replace everything before the end with OneDrive local path
iPos = InStr(1, fullPath, "/Documents") + Len("/Documents") 'find "/Documents" position in file URL
endFilePath = Mid(fullPath, iPos) 'Get the ending file path without pointer in OneDrive. Include leading "/"
Else 'Personal OneDrive
'For personal OneDrive, path looks like "https://d.docs.live.net/d7bbaa#######1/" & file.FullName
'We can get local file path by replacing "https.." up to the 4th slash, with the OneDrive local path obtained from registry
iPos = 8 'Last slash in https://
For ii = 1 To 2
iPos = InStr(iPos + 1, fullPath, "/") 'find 4th slash
Next ii
endFilePath = Mid(fullPath, iPos) 'Get the ending file path without OneDrive root. Include leading "/"
End If
endFilePath = Replace(endFilePath, "/", Application.PathSeparator) 'Replace forward slashes with back slashes (URL type to Windows type)
For ii = 1 To 3 'Loop to see if the tentative LocalWorkbookName is the name of a file that actually exists, if so return the name
oneDrivePath = Environ(Choose(ii, "OneDriveCommercial", "OneDriveConsumer", "OneDrive")) 'Check possible local paths. "OneDrive" should be the last one
If 0 < Len(oneDrivePath) Then
LocalFullName = oneDrivePath & endFilePath
Exit Function 'Success (i.e. found the correct Environ parameter)
End If
Next ii
'Possibly raise an error here when attempt to convert to a local file name fails - e.g. for "shared with me" files
LocalFullName = vbNullString
Else
LocalFullName = fullPath
End If
End Function
It's possible to improve on Virtuoso's answer to reduce (though not eliminate) the chance that the function returns a "wrong" file location. The problem is that there are various URLs that a workbook's .FullName can be. These are three I'm aware of:
- A URL associated with the user's OneDrive
- A URL associated with the user's OneDrive for Business
- A URL associated with somebody else's OneDrive in the case that that other person has "shared" the file (in which case you open the file via File > Open > Shared with me)
On my PC I can get the relevant local folders to map the first two URLs via the OneDriveConsumer and OneDriveCommercial environment variables, that exist in addition to the OneDrive environment variable, so the code below makes use of these. I'm not aware that it's possible to handle the "Shared with Me" files and the code below will return their https://-style location.
Private Function Local_Workbook_Name(ByRef wb As Workbook) As String
Dim i As Long, j As Long
Dim OneDrivePath As String
Dim ShortName As String
'Check if it looks like a OneDrive location
If InStr(1, wb.FullName, "https://", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
'Replace forward slashes with back slashes
ShortName = Replace(wb.FullName, "/", "\")
'Remove the first four backslashes
For i = 1 To 4
ShortName = Mid(ShortName, InStr(ShortName, "\") + 1)
Next
'Loop to see if the tentative LocalWorkbookName is the name of a file that actually exists, if so return the name
For j = 1 To 3
OneDrivePath = Environ(Choose(j, "OneDrive", "OneDriveCommercial", "OneDriveConsumer"))
If Len(OneDrivePath) > 0 Then
Local_Workbook_Name = OneDrivePath & "\" & ShortName
If Dir(Local_Workbook_Name) <> "" Then
Exit Function
End If
End If
Next j
'Possibly raise an error here when attempt to convert to a local file name fails - e.g. for "shared with me" files
End If
Local_Workbook_Name = wb.FullName
End Function
Unfortunately, if files exist with identical paths within both the OneDrive folder and the OneDrive for Business folder, then the code can't distinguish between them, and may return the "wrong one". I don't have a solution for that.