At the moment I am using SharePoint 2013, but by the end of the year we will be migrating over to Office 365. We have a Office 365 tenant at the moment and I am just getting to know the feel of it. I tried to open some sites with SharePoint Designer, but get this message ‘The folder name is invalid’, I have seen this message before with on premise when leaving in the ‘Pages/Home.aspx’ and not just using the site. I have checked in the site collection and it is set to allow SharePoint Designer, also exhausted Google Search but with no avail. In my last job I done some work on Office 365 and had no problems when creating workflows, so I am not sure what could be causing this problem. Any help would be appreciated.
None of the remedies I read online worked for me. They used to work but not anymore. What ultimately worked seems counter-intuitive and backward but, here it is:
I had to use Internet Explorer (not Edge or Chrome) and open a classic site’s library/list (or open any library list in classic mode) and navigate to SPD through its ribbon, the old fashioned way. It worked as expected (if I tried the same thing in Edge, it denied me access giving me the list of 4 reasons it wasn’t working which, of course, were irrelevant). Once I successfully opened SPD2013 for the one site in the manner, then I could type in the URL and open any site in my tenant, classic or modern, via the SPD app without issue.
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