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Yigit_Yuruker
Brass Contributor
Aug 30, 2019
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Moving Folders - One or More Errors Occured

Dear All,   Here I am with another SharePoint failure.    I can't move folders between two SharePoint sites. I am the Site Owner for both sites and the destination site is completely empty. Does ...
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DavidVs
Copper Contributor
Apr 11, 2020

DearNorman Young 

Thanks for sharing the info. The same issue still happens. Please, can you see any proggress?

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Eddie2040
Copper Contributor
Apr 14, 2020

DavidVs  and others.

 

I still have this behavior. I can only move or delete a folder after I have deleted all files and or subfolders in it. For subfolders the same behavior, so with multiple layers deep this can become really annoying.

 

Now, I did find the following article that might explain this behavior:

https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2018/08/fix-you-have-to-delete-all-items-in-this-folder-before-you-can-delete-folder-error-sharepoint-online.html

 

I have not yet been in touch with our IT department to dive into this.

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