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Unable to sync library or open in Explorer View because there are too many files
I have a user who wants to be able to drag folders around, but when I tried to show her how to open the libary in Explorer View, she got an error that the library was too large (I believe there were ...
If you really have 13000+ files in that root folder ... you will encounter other issues in SPO. One is that the search will not find items because the index does not handle that number-of-items well. Microsoft's recommendation is 5000 files/folders per root folder. My practical experience is 8k is about the cut off.
I just looked, it's actually over 17,000! Trust me, someone else set this up :smileyhappy: