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Moving file from onedrive to sharepoint and preserve the files permission settings
StephenRice wrote:Hi john john,
This is a request we are actually starting to hear more often and it's something the team is beginning to look at (though we don't have a timeframe to offer just yet). Can you help me understand what types of permissions you want to make sure get moved over? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
StephenRice Thanks for your reply and concern. Here are samples of the permissions we like to preserve:-
1. some folders inside the OneDrive will have unique permission and only specific users are granted permission to read/contribute.
2. some files inside the OneDrive have been shared using links.
now the above 2 cases will not be preserved within the files/folders when we use the built-in Move-to and Copy-To options.
i hope this clarify my question.
Thanks
MicrosoftThanks john john !
Do you primarily find yourself moving files from OneDrive to SharePoint or OneDrive to OneDrive?
And this does help clarify the need here. As I said above, nothing specific I can talk about now but this is something we are looking at improving :) Thanks,
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
StephenRice Did you ever make any progress on this? I have a similar goal, but I'm actually trying to copy between document libraries on the same SharePoint site. The research I've done sounds like it will lose permissions set on folders, but retain permissions on files. I really need to retain all permissions.
- StephenRice
john john, thanks for confirming!
That is the primary scenario we are looking at tackling so it's always good to hear that matches real world needs :) Thanks for all of your feedback, I really appreciate it!Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
StephenRice wrote:Thanks john john !
Do you primarily find yourself moving files from OneDrive to SharePoint or OneDrive to OneDrive?
And this does help clarify the need here. As I said above, nothing specific I can talk about now but this is something we are looking at improving :) Thanks,
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
StephenRiceok i got your point, it is good to know that those are in your plan. now in my case we usually receive requests to move files for the users' OneDrives to sharepoint,and i have never receive any request to move files from OneDrive to OneDrive OR from sharepoint to OneDrive. mainly when a user leave the company , and we do not want to loose the user's files, we are asked to move the user's files from OneDrive to a sharepoint document library. and in all the cases which i worked on, the users had define unique permissions for the folders and sometimes on the files levels..
