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Any potential concern of large SharePoint document libraries (>5,000)?
It's not recommended at all and the experience won't be good,both from end user perspective but also Goverance and lifecycle.
I truly recommend you to split it up and create a new structure and teach the user how to filter and to use search
These issues are encountered:
- Filtering not really working as it should
- File syncronization will cause issues
- Querying the library will be a PIA
- Indexation issues
- Can't break permission and handle permission will be a pain
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/large-lists-large-libraries-in-sharepoint
Forward this article. Everything online is cumbersome. This method in this article to "Turn off OneDrive sync for Libraries" is a single tenant command. It won't break existing sync's but it will remove the button to sync going forward etc.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-sync#turn-off-onedrive-sync-for-sharepoint-libraries
They can still use the modern "Add shortcut" method to sync files, but this disables the old method.
- Thank you once again for sharing the reference.
