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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.
Hello ,
I mapped SharePoint site to my PC ,
I am trying to move a 10GB file from a SharePoint Site to another SharePoint site which has been mapped to my PC, I get an error message "error 0x800700DF:The file size exceeds the limit allowed and cannot be saved "
I have edited the registry to 4294967295 and restarted the Pc and the web client still the same error. when I navigate to the SharePoint online it gets stocked on 50% for hours .
Is there anything I can do move the file ?
Or is there a maximum file size of file I can move between sites ?
Thank you
- Paul de JongSep 25, 2019Iron Contributor
Can you check the following:
1. Did you change the FileSizeLimitInBytes parameter to 4294967295? This is only 4 GB whereas you need at least 10 GB.
2. Are you moving the file within the same SharePoint system? or between SharePoint systems?
Note: that SharePoint 2013 has a 2 GB limit.
3. Are you able to download the 10 GB to your local computer?
4. How do you connect to SharePoint? via OneDrive client or File explorer or ...
Paul | SLIM Applications (https://www.slimapplications.com)- Ezekiel_OpeSep 29, 2019Copper Contributorpaul
1. I used the 4294967295 in the regedit
2. I am moving from a sharepoint online site to another site .
3. The sharepoint was connected using the file explorer , it was mapped like a network drive .
4- erbnateOct 11, 2019Copper Contributor
Same issues here, and look everyone - the usual from Microsoft and their apologists: NOTHING. Brahman garbage, all of your online crap.