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Dale Howard
May 05, 2020Copper Contributor
SharePoint Migration Tool - XLS Password Protected
We have recently begun migrating some data to SharePoint Online using the SharePoint Migration Tool. We are doing this slowly, but we have noticed that some XLS originally from 2008 present themselve...
Alireza Rahimifarid
May 05, 2020Iron Contributor
Hello Dale Howard
We are always using the password-protected Excel files in SharePoint without any issues, I have migrated many files with SPMT no issues, check the link below also try to sync the document library and open it from your computer and see if there is any difference?
Dale Howard
May 05, 2020Copper Contributor
Alireza Rahimifarid Thank you, but this is the first time we have uploaded these files to Sharepoint using SPMT. All files in question appear to be password protected. We have no reason to believe they were password protected in the first place. When we download the files to the desktop using browser download they open perfectly fine without any password prompt. The password error only appears when opening the file within the browser.