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Jason_shadmany
Copper Contributor
Aug 28, 2021

Moving libraries across SharePoint sites

Hi Everybody,

I am using SharePoint online and would like to copy a library from one site to another. I have created an exact metadata in the new library; however, when I use "copy to" function to copy some of the files I will notice that only the data of some columns will be copied and not all columns. Through library settings, I made sure that each column in the new library has the exact same settings as that column in the source library. I still get metadata of some columns but not all. Any suggestion?

Thanks

Jason   

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  • RobElliott's avatar
    RobElliott
    Silver Contributor

    Jason_shadmany you can copoy a library from one site to another with all columns using a flow in Power Automate.

     

    Rob
    Los Gallardos
    Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

    • Jason_shadmany's avatar
      Jason_shadmany
      Copper Contributor

      RobElliott Thanks for your suggestion. I tried the attached flow but the same problem exists. Some columns are not copied over. 

  • Hello Jason,

    if you have experience with PowerShell (PnP-PowerShell), you can make a script to get the files, copy them and map the metadata at the same time into your target site. I hope I could help with this suggestion.

    Cheers
    Ahmed

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