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Lost Files After SharePoint Site Reorg - How to Sync Files to New Folder Structure
I just finished a SharePoint Online site cleanup and reorg of the document folder structure. I did not delete any files or folders with content, but found that most of my files were missing. I found the icon below for my document library showing 509 files in it (which I suspect contains the missing docs), and am doing a sync now, but am wondering what is going to happen to the files that do not have a corresponding folder in the new directory structure. Is there any way to store those files locally and manually copy them to their appropriate new locations? Or some other solution?
Thanks.
- Trim off everything after the library name in the url. Also assuming you are on a more modern windows version? Need to do this on like a windows 8+ machine. Don’t remember if 7 and or server will do it.
You can also accomplish the same using internet explorer. Going to the library then go to the library tab in classic view and open with explorer.
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- Seems like you have something going on with a view, or your in a sub folder somehow, or what I've seen people do is stick their files in the forms folder which is a hidden folder in the document library. If you open the URL to the document library in windows explorer, it should show the root directory, here you can move files around without issues since it's a direct file path to the documents and not a "sync".
Thanks -- but when I try that, I just get this error dialog:
- Trim off everything after the library name in the url. Also assuming you are on a more modern windows version? Need to do this on like a windows 8+ machine. Don’t remember if 7 and or server will do it.
You can also accomplish the same using internet explorer. Going to the library then go to the library tab in classic view and open with explorer.
