# File name you have received is either invalid or too long excel sharepoint2013

- Link: https://sharepointtechnicalsupport.com/2015/04/26/filename-invalid-or-too-long-sharepoint/
- Published: 2015-04-26T11:47:31+05:30
- Author: Deviprasad Panda

I have just created a new web application and site collection in SharePoint 2013.
With a large number of documents to place into a Document Library I thought it would
be easier to copy and paste them using Windows Explorer, so I opened the document
library and click Open with Explorer.

**The filename you’ve specified is either invalid or too long Specify a different
filename.**

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filename invalid too long specify different name excel sharepoint

As a test I tried to upload a single file using the browser but this generated the
following error:

**Sorry, something went wrong.The URL ‘Shared documents/Project budget.xlsx’ is 
invalid.**

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The filename isn’t very long at all, including the full path, so I found this quite
strange.  I immediately started looking through the ULS logs and the following entry
caught my eye, which was logged at the same time I tried to upload the files:

**Exception thrown storing stream in new SqlRemoteBlob: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException:
Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> Microsoft.Data.SqlRemoteBlobs.
BlobStoreException: There was a generic database error. For more information, see
the included exception. —> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: RBS Error. Original
Error: Number 297, Severity 16, State 1, Procedure rbs_fs_sp_check_pool_size, Line
31, Message: The user does not have permission to perform this action.  Transaction
count after EXECUTE indicates a mismatching number of BEGIN and COMMIT statements.
Previous count = 1, current count = 0.     at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.
OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction)**

I do have RBS (Remote Blob Storage) enabled for this content database so it appears
that this has got messed up somehow.  After reading various other blog posts and
TechNet articles I began some trial and error with the database permissions.  The
only way I found to solve this was to grant the service account used by the application
pool db_owner rights on the content database, in addition to the db_rbs_* permissions.

[⌊SP portal AppPool Permissions⌉⌊SP portal AppPool Permissions⌉[

SP portal AppPool Permissions

The original error about the filename being too long or invalid is very misleading,
there is no hint of a permissions issue until digging into the ULS logs.

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