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Best practice for moving documents between sites/sitecollections
What is the best/most user friendly way to move files/folders from one site to another?
Explorer view seems not to work with larger files.
The best and most user friendly way is to use paid third party tools (such as ShareGate), which usually move also metadata and previous versions.
Free solutions, which don't move metadata and previous versions, include:
- Explorer view (one-step)
- Drag&Drop between locally synced folders (one-step)
- Web UI (D&D or menus - in two steps)
- SPFileZilla (in two steps)
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Thanks for the quick response! I can go ahead with these answers :-)
Is this for a migration activity or for general user best practices/ease of use?
What size file did you have trouble with Explorer view?
- Take also a look of the innovations coming to Copy and Move To functions in ODFB and SPO Team Sites
The best and most user friendly way is to use paid third party tools (such as ShareGate), which usually move also metadata and previous versions.
Free solutions, which don't move metadata and previous versions, include:
- Explorer view (one-step)
- Drag&Drop between locally synced folders (one-step)
- Web UI (D&D or menus - in two steps)
- SPFileZilla (in two steps)
- The best and most user friendly way is through third party paid tools, which usually move also metadata and previous versions.
Free solutions, which don't move neither metadata nor previous versions, include:
1. Local move between synced folders (which is a one-step solution)
2. Explorer view (also one-step)
3. Download and re-upload (in two steps) by means of the Web UI (menus or drag&drop - browser dependent)
4. Download and re-upload (in two steps) by means of SPFileZilla I have found the ShareGate is the best at this.
