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Advice on Migrating .STP files to SharePoit Online
We are currently looking at trying to migrate from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Online.
We have looked at the SharePoint Migration Tool by Microsoft as a free way to do this. All is good until you...
There are lots of things that are different between the Modern Sites and 2013 Sites in SPO, including some of the back end design.
For any list/library, you can, via settings, force the 2013 "Classic Experience" view/options; you might attempt this for the library/list under your modern site.
Under (Settings Widget)> List/Library Settings>Advanced Settings: (the last option)
I'd be surprised if you could get this working in a modern view however...
Best you can do here is use PnP Stuff to extract the definition of your lists and document liabraries, re-create them in Office 365 and then perform the migration