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OneTechBeyond
Oct 12, 2020Iron Contributor
How to check status on SharePoint Online file move/copy?
I began performing a file move from a personal cloud OneDrive for Business account to a SharePoint Online document library around 12 hours ago. The amount of data was around 15GB in total. There ar...
zachtuman
Apr 30, 2026Copper Contributor
Hi its 2026 and this feature still sucks!
- Copy/Move fails instantly for "too many files" while there is no clear indication of how many files is the max (BTW, there shouldn't be a max! Either move as many as you can, or move all the files I select. IDC how long it takes, do it in the background and let me know when its done later. I'm going to copy whatever folders are outside the max copy limit in a separate copy action anyway, so you might as well queue it all for me).
- If you refresh the page, you lose your copy/move status (even though the status bar is useless anyway. Just gets stuck at 50% then eventually miraculously jumps to complete! What does "waiting" even mean?).
- Moving folders sometimes misses files in subfolders even after a "complete" status. Those files are still moved to trash in the source, then need to be recovered to be manually transferred.
Please Bob_Microsoft​ fix this. (Also sorry to ping you directly Bob, you might have nothing to do with this feature, but you have the same name as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob so I'm going to tag you on every dead MS support thread in an effort to bring life to dead issues).