When using Move to, files will continue to appear in the source location until it has fully moved.The Move to operation will fail if you attempt to move the document across libraries and the destination has enforced unique values.Copy to will only copy the latest version – to copy earlier versions, you need to restore and copy each one. Using the Move to feature will also move the complete history of the document to the new destination.There are other limitations around the copy/move features, such as: As of February 2021 the requirements are: Shortly thereafter the SharePoint limits service description was also updated, seemingly to reflect this change. Later in December 2020, Microsoft announced an increased upload file size limit from 100 GB to 250 GB for SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive. When I initially outlined this post in December 2020, much of the limitations were the same as today, however there was a 2GB limit for each individual file that was being copied/ moved in a single operation. Current limitationsĪs good as the copy/ move features are now, they do however come with their own limitations. It is now literally as simple as selecting the files or folders you want to copy/ move > pressing copy/ move and do it…well almost! An example of how easy it is to move files to a new location in SharePoint Online. The copy/ move features are much, much better now – mainly the unified user experience across M365 makes it much easier to get to grips with and understand.

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