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SharePoint Approval process not working
I have a user who is in an owners group on his SharePoint and he no longer can approve/deny versions of documents. There is nothing extra added to the libraries and he is the only user who cannot approve documents. I have tried removing him completely from the site and readding him and giving him site admin permissions. Are there any other steps to try to remedy this?
The document library is massive with over 100,000 items. I think this could be the reason as the site owners just put random folders everywhere but again this one user is the only one with the issue.
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RichardJohnson Do a lot of these files have unique permissions? If so, then I'd agree that the likely issue will be due to the number of items in the library. Microsoft keeps saying you can store 50 million items in a list/library, but it already starts to break at 5001, and at around 20k you see other issues, and just gets worse.
I'd suggest trying to split the library up into multiple libraries if possible (archive perhaps).
After making the user an owner, can you go into Library settings > Permissions for this document library, then click on Check Permissions to see what permissions he has on the library?
