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Original date documents after copy from other library
Hi, i copied documents from one library of a sharepoint site to another library in another site. Now i see that the date of the documents (changed) have changed to the date when i copied the ...
Hi OliverR.
Do you know if there is a way to do something similar if i want to move files from a folder in our server to SharePoint?
We are recently moving everybody from local drives to sharepoint. The big problem i am finding, is that when users move the files from their department drives to their sharepoint site, all documents have a new created date and modified date (the day they were moved) instead of the original file date, which means, using retention policies is very difficult, because if I say that all files in folder x should be deleted 5 years from created, it will only be 5 years from when the file was moved (if the file was originally created 4 years ago, but the date change when the file was moved, then it means by the time the file is deleted is going to be 9 years old not 5) is there a way to sort that out?
thanks
Do you know if there is a way to do something similar if i want to move files from a folder in our server to SharePoint?
We are recently moving everybody from local drives to sharepoint. The big problem i am finding, is that when users move the files from their department drives to their sharepoint site, all documents have a new created date and modified date (the day they were moved) instead of the original file date, which means, using retention policies is very difficult, because if I say that all files in folder x should be deleted 5 years from created, it will only be 5 years from when the file was moved (if the file was originally created 4 years ago, but the date change when the file was moved, then it means by the time the file is deleted is going to be 9 years old not 5) is there a way to sort that out?
thanks
Hi, when moving files from an on-premise fileserver or just local PC's you would need to use a migration tool in order to preserve the metadata. Copying the files over manually will just create new files. There are numerous migration software packages available that support moving data over from a fileserver to SharePoint Online. Microsoft's own SharePoint Migration Tool is free to use and does preserve the metadata such as created and modified timestamps, as well as permissions if needed. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool.
Another very widely used software package for data migration is ShareGate. That offers a lot more features than SPMT but it isn't free.