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em1095
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May 20, 2020
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SharePoint IDs in my SharePoint Online Library randomly Increased 10-fold? Is this a problem?

Hello,     As you can see in the screenshot below. I created a Sharepoint Library and set it to show the ID field since I use this field as a way to track documents that are created and placed wit...
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  • Vikram_Samal's avatar
    Vikram_Samal
    May 21, 2020

    em1095 That's little concerning. The SP library gives the folder the ids in continuation to last document/folder id. As shown below

    Looking at you situation I can think of below:

    1. Some large data migration going which some how deleted

    2. Some package of third party tool installed then removed which created those items and then removed

    3. users created them by mistake then removed.

     

    If any of the above answer is false then talk to MS and look for the correct reason. This is not at all the usual behavior.

     

    Hopefully this helps. Mark the answer appropriately if this helps.

     

    -Vik

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Vikram_Samal
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May 21, 2020

em1095 That's little concerning. The SP library gives the folder the ids in continuation to last document/folder id. As shown below

Looking at you situation I can think of below:

1. Some large data migration going which some how deleted

2. Some package of third party tool installed then removed which created those items and then removed

3. users created them by mistake then removed.

 

If any of the above answer is false then talk to MS and look for the correct reason. This is not at all the usual behavior.

 

Hopefully this helps. Mark the answer appropriately if this helps.

 

-Vik

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