Forum Discussion
Moving or Copying Files: Painfully Slow, Loss of Data
- Aug 28, 2018
If you're using "Open in Explorer" I think that may be part of the issue, and I'm assuming that you're using Internet Explorer. From personal experience I never really got on with the piece of functionality. It worked well back in 2007 when I first used it, but now there are much better options available.
Option 1 - Move To
When you visit a document library in the modern experience, you can click on the ellipsis against the document and select move to (see attachment "Modern-MoveTo.docx". In Figure 1, you can see the option to move to, and then in Figure 2 you can see that you have a number of options to either move it to OneDrive for Business or to another SharePoint site. When I tested this with a document of approx 1mb it took about 5 seconds to get itself warmed up and then do the move.
Option 2 - OneDrive Sync
The alternative option which has been mentioned before is to use sync (see attachment Modern-Sync.docx). In Figure 1, you can see the ability to Sync your library to your local file system using the OneDrive Sync Client. By hitting the sync button, you'll see it connect to your sync client (Figure 2), and then it will be available from your Windows Explorer windows (Figure 3). Once it's been synced, you can copy and paste documents between synced libraries in the same way as you would with normal files. Again this took only a few seconds to copy, paste and sync between the libraries.
I hope this approaches are useful and that they work. If not, please let us know and we'll see what else we can come up with.
Hillary Barter Same issue with us. We have recently moved to SPoint and moving any files/folders more than around 100MB is painfully slow. Whether using ODFB sync client or the Web interface and choosing Move To or Copy To it makes no difference, it takes massively more time to complete the task than doing it on our file server. Using the web interface I have currently set a task to move folder containing 682MB of files, it has so far taken 45 minutes, and the progress indicator has been indicating 50% for the past 30 minutes. I suspect it may have stalled. But what logs can I check? There seems to be very little feedback to users in sharepoint.
- kvaden357Apr 14, 2020Brass ContributorSeeing the same issue between SP and ODB. I'm trying to copy a folder with 1GB of mixed files (documents, video) and after 30min it is STILL showing 50%. Ridiculous. At this point even if I wanted to move these files to a more reliable cloud (like DropBox) I don't see how I could do it. Oh and I'm trying "copy" since when I earlier tried a move (with a much smaller folder) I was told "Done" but only TWO of the 8 files actually moved. Really Microsoft??