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Iron Contributor

Sep 12, 2024

Download huge amount of data from SharePoint external folder

Hi all, wondering what is the best way to download data from a SharePoint folder shared with me from external user. The folder contains thousands of subfolders and files and the size is approx 50...

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DaveMehr365

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Sep 18, 2024

Hello sumo83

here are all limits and boundaries in SharePoint and OneDrive:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/restrictions-and-limitations-in-onedrive-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa#individualfilesize?WT.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004845

Best, Dave

sumo83
Iron Contributor
Sep 19, 2024
Hi DaveMehr365

thanks for sharing this... very useful... I've already found there are limitation - wondering whether there is any workaround - e.g. sharepoint command shell... or power automate.... or any way that can be used.... As looks like we will need to deal with these massive downloads few times a year...