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Moving or Copying Files: Painfully Slow, Loss of Data
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 BarterI recently uploaded 3.48 GB of data and here is what I found. It took several hours to upload (drag and drop), but the biggest problem is the properties listed on the file jump drive verses SharePoint don't match. I went through every folder and completed a comparison and the files matched! What doesn't make sense, if the files are there, why are they not being counted in the properties size or contains xxx files, xxx folders? I completed the whole transfer a second time, completed the same review and one again the files properties don't match or the number of files and folders. It seems Microsoft has an issue with cloud storage. Has any one else experienced this issue?
Hi Angel105, yes I'm seeing exactly the same - not one of the file attributes is left unchanged, except the file type, in the transfer. Looking at file properties within File explorer. In my screenshots below the properties on the left are from the original file on our file server and the right from the same file on SP. The file has not been modified in any way since moving from the file server so all changes in the properties are from moving to SP.
