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Need some advice on working with a large document library
Hi ChrisWebbTech ,
I agree folders are not strictly required but if a view or Folder is returning/has more than 5000 items (roughly) the following error is returned -
I haven't see it is possible to just have 50,000 files returned by the default "All documents" view without putting those files in folders or applying meta data to cut down what is returned. I got this error by turning on "Show items without folders" in the view settings.
- Nov 15, 2019Hmm, I have a library with well over 5000 items and the no folder view works just fine. I do have a handful of indexes thou. Make sure that view does not have any filters applied.
- Jille FloridorNov 15, 2019Brass Contributor
Hi ChrisWebbTech an Andrew Hodges
Thanks for your replies!
The idea behind the additional columns was to use them for filtering, since search didn't return any results. I didn't mention I'm filling two more columns. I split the filename to fill a name, firstname and a date column.
I'm going to create a set of folders and try and upload the files in those folders. See how that works out.