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Hillary Barter
Aug 27, 2018Copper Contributor
Moving or Copying Files: Painfully Slow, Loss of Data
Hello All! Our company transitioned over to SharePoint Online about a year ago. One of the largest complaints I have to date, is the time it takes to move or copy files. In cases of one or t...
- Aug 28, 2018
If you're using "Open in Explorer" I think that may be part of the issue, and I'm assuming that you're using Internet Explorer. From personal experience I never really got on with the piece of functionality. It worked well back in 2007 when I first used it, but now there are much better options available.
Option 1 - Move To
When you visit a document library in the modern experience, you can click on the ellipsis against the document and select move to (see attachment "Modern-MoveTo.docx". In Figure 1, you can see the option to move to, and then in Figure 2 you can see that you have a number of options to either move it to OneDrive for Business or to another SharePoint site. When I tested this with a document of approx 1mb it took about 5 seconds to get itself warmed up and then do the move.
Option 2 - OneDrive Sync
The alternative option which has been mentioned before is to use sync (see attachment Modern-Sync.docx). In Figure 1, you can see the ability to Sync your library to your local file system using the OneDrive Sync Client. By hitting the sync button, you'll see it connect to your sync client (Figure 2), and then it will be available from your Windows Explorer windows (Figure 3). Once it's been synced, you can copy and paste documents between synced libraries in the same way as you would with normal files. Again this took only a few seconds to copy, paste and sync between the libraries.
I hope this approaches are useful and that they work. If not, please let us know and we'll see what else we can come up with.
eduvel63
Mar 08, 2024Copper Contributor
Hillary Barter I'm with you all on this non-sense from Microsoft.
I tried copying 1855 files/folders from one folder to another on the same SharePoint site. It's been already 8 hours and it's still processing with no warnings or errors. Not sure how much longer I have to wait. I migrated all this data and much more for a client with about 480GB in Box using MultCloud tool.
MultCloud is a terrific tool to move data from any cloud to any cloud. The price is reasonable and the support even via email is really good. I should have used MultCloud to move the data inside SharePoint online, but didn't think it was going to take this long. Another option to map a SharePoint site to a virtual drive on your File Explorer is a tool called ZeeDrive from Thinkscape. I've been using it with a client with lots of data sucessfully.