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Quick consultation from you guys
So if a library has the 5,000 threshold limit, how can you break that limit for SP Online? I tried doing index, but for some odd reason I can't see records beyond 1,500 and there's 10k files.
Hi, Jonathan.
You're not actually breaking the limit or threshold. It's is more working around it.
Indexing is only one technique but a more effective would be to identify if you'll need to create sub-folders that will not exceed more than 5,000 items.
Other workarounds include archiving/deleting items after a certain point in time, or using list filters that will not display that many items.
You may have encountered this online but here is Microsoft's article on the topic:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-large-lists-and-libraries-in-SharePoint-b8588dae-9387-48c2-9248-c24122f07c59
