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Migrated files much larger in SharePoint Online than on disk
I am doing some migration testing and I am surprised how much larger files are when uploaded to SharePoint Online. I uploaded roughly 80GB of office files, which resulted in maxing out the storage li...
No it was just standard test office files. I used Invoke-SPOMigrationEncryptUploadSubmit to migrate the files.
Here are some examples:
I have discovered the exact same issue... 200kB word docs have grown after sharepoint upload to 1.4MB files! There are no extra 'versions' that I can see, just the document itself; It is exactly as you have shown. I uploaded simply by syncing a folder on my desktop to the site library.
Did you happen to find out what is going on?