Now – move files anywhere in Office 365, SharePoint and OneDrive

So this functionality is available in my SharePoint - GREAT!!!

I have started to try the feature out by copying some fairly decent sized folders 1-2GB.

However, the copyTo function is SLOW, VERY.... SLOW, Our 0365 is costs us many thousands per month so its not because we have a cheap setup.

I am copying 3 selected folders, and the UI in the new look doc repository SharePoint online gives a good view of the copy, 3 folders and 3 progress bars is very good, but it gets STUCK, it will get to say 5% on all 3 folders, then hold for 5 minutes, then get going again, then stop on 14% on all 3 folders and be stuck there for for 10 minutes, and so forth. So what is going on? 

-NEED TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THAT, why does the copy just stop/pause? what could it be? is it the resource allocation across the two different sites? Does that need to be increased? - Someone please help,  Chris McNulty any ideas?

Its now been stuck on 55%, seemingly unable to move off for the last 20 minutes... <--update before posting, its moved to 57% across all three folders.

Additionally I tried a folder MoveTo, "woo hooo now that is a simple pointer switch right" - wrong its not a pointer switch, its a lift and shift. - I guess the decision was to keep document repository and files management "pure" / keep it "clean" move the data to the actual location of where the target document repository is , that makes everything cleaner for future infrastructure maintenance.. yes, yes it does, but it makes for a cheesed off customer as well. - if it did not take so long to copy / move it would be an improvement on the "nothing" that we have had for a decade.

All in all this is a very good start, but it has some way to go just for the basic functionality to be enjoyably used, I mean i will use it as is, but I can expect to wait days for copies, which is a real pain and means a lot of smaller copies need to be fired off (a tough ask because SP online does not to my knowledge show you folder sizes so its pure guess work).

Additionally I have no idea what would happen in a MoveTo if users access the docs in transit? The copy and move is far too slow, how do we speed that up?

thanks

Robert.