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      Danp
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      I have an old file server (2003 VM) that I would like to eliminate for obvious reasons. We moved the O365 for email last year, and I have recently starting moving some of the file from the network drive to the document library. Through trial and error, I've found that you can't copy a whole folder of files by dragging the folder to the browser window. As an alternative, I've been opening the site in an Explorer window (must be done with IE as the browser).

      I've been able to move folders / files using this method, but I believe that I've found an issue in hindsight. Some of the files that were copied / moved are showing zero bytes and I've confirmed that they are empty.

      A quick search turned up this link, but its from 3+ years ago.

      Has anyone run into this issue?

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        thwr @Danp
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        @Danp said in Moving files en-masse to Sharepoint:

        I have an old file server (2003 VM) that I would like to eliminate for obvious reasons. We moved the O365 for email last year, and I have recently starting moving some of the file from the network drive to the document library. Through trial and error, I've found that you can't copy a whole folder of files by dragging the folder to the browser window. As an alternative, I've been opening the site in an Explorer window (must be done with IE as the browser).

        I've been able to move folders / files using this method, but I believe that I've found an issue in hindsight. Some of the files that were copied / moved are showing zero bytes and I've confirmed that they are empty.

        A quick search turned up this link, but its from 3+ years ago.

        Has anyone run into this issue?

        Yepp, mass file ops are a bit buggy, at least in 2010. Maybe due to WebDAV behind the scenes.

        Used a PowerShell script to upload and verify each file. Slow but worked as expected.

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          BRRABill
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          It's amazing how much better the personal version of OneDrive handles this kind of stuff. It's faster and can take multiple files.

          /rantoff

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            Dashrender
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            Furthermore, you often cant use the online version of excel to open old school xls files. You should convert them to xlsx if possible first, I'm sure the same is true for old word doc files.

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              Danp @thwr
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              @thwr said in Moving files en-masse to Sharepoint:

              Yepp, mass file ops are a bit buggy, at least in 2010. Maybe due to WebDAV behind the scenes.

              Used a PowerShell script to upload and verify each file. Slow but worked as expected.

              From what I can tell, the site is on 2016 (16.0.0.1203).

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                Danp
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                Found lots of products for sale that will assist in migrating the files. So far, I have found two free ones:

                -- https://spbulkdocumentimport.codeplex.com/
                -- https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/f538c34c-4f74-4645-9649-fd25e49805d6/

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                  Danp @Danp
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                  Another one:

                  -- https://spfilezilla.codeplex.com/

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                    bbigford
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                    Christmas come early... we used to get around this with SharePoint 2007 by mounting a virtual drive and dumping hoards of documents in there, which then shows up on the front end. Essentially you're not using the front end. You are just doing a massive dump directly onto the server.

                    Kept using that method with SP13 even though now you can upload multiple docs but not open and share certain file types that GIS uses.

                    I can't remember the path to the repository we dump stuff in. Let me look...

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                      bbigford @bbigford
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                      @BBigford said in Moving files en-masse to Sharepoint:

                      Christmas come early... we used to get around this with SharePoint 2007 by mounting a virtual drive and dumping hoards of documents in there, which then shows up on the front end. Essentially you're not using the front end. You are just doing a massive dump directly onto the server.

                      Kept using that method with SP13 even though now you can upload multiple docs but not open and share certain file types that GIS uses.

                      I can't remember the path to the repository we dump stuff in. Let me look...

                      Ultimately it ends up looking something like this...

                      https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/4133-office-365-sharepoint-map-network-drive

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                        bbigford
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                        There's also another one that would look something like \devdep\WWW\share\front

                        But I can't remember the exact verbiage so I'll have to look tomorrow...

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                          Danp @bbigford
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                          @BBigford Thanks... I look forward to your response. To clarify, this is different than the "Open In Exploer" option I mentioned earlier with the zero byte resulting files?

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                            Danp @bbigford
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                            @BBigford said in Moving files en-masse to Sharepoint:

                            There's also another one that would look something like \devdep\WWW\share\front

                            But I can't remember the exact verbiage so I'll have to look tomorrow...

                            Did you ever come up with anything further on this?

                            Thanks, Dan

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                              Kelly
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                              This doesn't answer your problem specifically, but something to be aware of when moving fileshares over to SPO is that there is a 5,000 item limit to file views. If you get close to that, SPO starts behaving oddly. What we did to get around this limitation was converting our top level folders into separate Document Libraries.

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                                Dashrender
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                                File views? or files per site in SPO? I found it to be files per site several years ago... sad to see that hasn't been fixed/upped.

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                                  Kelly @Dashrender
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                                  @Dashrender said in Moving files en-masse to Sharepoint:

                                  File views? or files per site in SPO? I found it to be files per site several years ago... sad to see that hasn't been fixed/upped.

                                  The 5k limit was per view. There might also be an upper limit for files per site, but I've not tested it.

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                                    bbigford @Danp
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                                    @Danp said in Moving files en-masse to Sharepoint:

                                    @BBigford said in Moving files en-masse to Sharepoint:

                                    There's also another one that would look something like \devdep\WWW\share\front

                                    But I can't remember the exact verbiage so I'll have to look tomorrow...

                                    Did you ever come up with anything further on this?

                                    Thanks, Dan
                                    WebDAV is underlying technology.. if my SP site and domain is site.domain.com, knowing that SharePoint is going to use a flat file share in this example, then my mapped drive would be \site.domain.com\repository ... If you get a permissions error (the user needs to be able to upload there) use the following link: https://www.lucidica.com/help/mapping-sharepoint-as-a-network-drive/

                                    A Google search for some more key content would be "SharePoint mapped drive Windows". I found lots and lots of links for all kinds of setups from 2007 to hosted online and 2013.

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                                      Danp @bbigford
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                                      @BBigford Not sure that this solves the issue that I encountered where the resulting file was corrupt / zero bytes.

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                                        bbigford @Danp
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                                        @Danp said in Moving files en-masse to Sharepoint:

                                        @BBigford Not sure that this solves the issue that I encountered where the resulting file was corrupt / zero bytes.

                                        What version of SharePoint are you on? That method is what we've used for 2007 & 2013...

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                                          Danp @Danp
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                                          @BBigford This is on O365. The version is 2016 (16.0.0.1203).

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