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john john
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Aug 02, 2019

Unable to view the version for the files & total number of items for a user's OneDrive's files lib

We have a user who left the company, and i want to move all his files inside his OneDrive site (private and shared) to a sharepoint document library.

 

Using the Office 365 admin (who can view the user's private files) >> i have selected all the user's OneDrive main folders >> click on "Copy To" >> select the destination sharepoint document library. and the process started.

 

but as part of verifying if everything will be copied correctly, i am not sure how i can view these info inside the user's OneDrive's Files lib:-

 

1. i am unable to view the total number of items inside the user's OneDrive's Files library. i tried to get this info inside the classic and modern UI but without any result. for example inside sharepoint site >> you can click on site content and get the total number of items inside any list/library. but how i can do this for the user's OneDrive site's Files library?

 

2. i am not sure if using the "Copy To" option (to copy files from OneDrive to sharepoint) will also copy all the files versions or not. to verify this i need to modify the user's onedrive's Files library view to show the version, so is this possible?

 

Thanks

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  • john john 

    1. Have You tried to use this https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Powershell-cmdlet-for-f4d6e0ad?

    2. "Copy to" to will only copy the latest version. If You want all versions You will have to use "Move to". See more about that here: "https://support.office.com/en-us/article/move-or-copy-files-in-sharepoint-00e2f483-4df3-46be-a861-1f5f0c1a87bc".

     

    "When you use Copy to with documents that have version history, only the latest version is copied. To copy earlier versions, you need to restore and copy each one."

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