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Iron Contributor

Jul 10, 2019

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"Copy To" reseted the modified & created dates for the files while will preseve them for the folders

I want to move 10 folders from one-drive personal site to a sharepoint document library inside a modern team site. so i went to the onedrive personal site >> select the 10 folders >> click on "Copy ...

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ChrisWebbTech
Jul 10, 2019
A copy is a new file. So not using that. You can use move to or sync the library and try moving files to sync location and it might keep the file dates but usually that happens when you copy.

ChrisWebbTech

MVP

Jul 10, 2019

A copy is a new file. So not using that. You can use move to or sync the library and try moving files to sync location and it might keep the file dates but usually that happens when you copy.

john john

Iron Contributor

Jul 11, 2019

ChrisWebbTech wrote:
A copy is a new file. So not using that. You can use move to or sync the library and try moving files to sync location and it might keep the file dates but usually that happens when you copy.

ChrisWebbTechi do not want to use "Move to" as i need to keep the source files inside onedrive, so we can reapply the permission on the folders, since neither "copy to" nor "move to" will preserve the permissions, alos i need to keep the source files on onedrive for verification purposes (to make sure that everything has been moved correctly) . You mentioned using the sync, but can you advice how i can use sync to transfer files from one library to another?

ChrisWebbTech
MVP
Jul 11, 2019
Setup both locations sync and copy across. You might also try move to and then restore from recycle bin.
- john john
  Iron Contributor
  Jul 11, 2019
  
  ChrisWebbTech wrote:
  Setup both locations sync and copy across. You might also try move to and then restore from recycle bin.
  ChrisWebbTech thanks for the idea.. i can use move-to then restore the files from the one-drive recycle bin.. i actually did not know that the moved files will be inside recycle, i thought they will get completely removed.. but do u know of any issue that can be raised if we restore a deleted file? let say a file has unique permission or it is been shared using a link,, will the restored file mimic 100% the deleted file..if it will mimic then i can use the move-to and restore the deleted files... in this case the moved files will preserve their created/modified dates + i will still have the source files for verification..
  - ChrisWebbTech
    MVP
    Jul 11, 2019
    No idea. You’ll have to test it and see what happenes.
- john john
  Iron Contributor
  Jul 11, 2019
  
  ChrisWebbTech wrote:
  Setup both locations sync and copy across. You might also try move to and then restore from recycle bin.
  ChrisWebbTech so what will be the benefits of using Sync over using move-to or copy-to , i do not want to learn new appraoch if it will not provide any additional feature, will using sync preserve the permissions?
  - ChrisWebbTech
    MVP
    Jul 11, 2019
    No it won’t. It’s just an idea for you to try to preserve time stamps.