How to move and copy documents in SharePoint and OneDrive You need to be a licensed user to follow sites in SharePoint.
If you do not see a Follow site option on your site, it means you do not have an Office 365 License. Trust me, you will reap more benefits by following a site in SharePoint, than by following Kim Kardashian on Instagram. So go ahead and hit that Follow button the upper-right-hand corner. I describe the concepts of the site following here. You must follow the SharePoint sites you want to move the content to! This will allow you to cherry-pick the destination site from the massive list of sites you have in your environment. Yeah, I know you want to move those files and folders in SharePoint, but there is a crucial step you must do first (which will become relevant during instructions below). What you need to do before you move and copy documents in SharePoint When you copy the files/folders from one location to another, only the latest version of the file is copied to the destination (not the whole version history of the file).When you copy the files/folders – it maintains the content at the source while also replicating it at the destination.When you move the files/folders from one location to another, files’ version history is all kept and maintained (it moves the file with all its version history).When you move the files/folders from source site to another site – it physically relocates the files/folders to another site, however, and VERY IMPORTANT – it also deletes the files/folders from the source site and moves them to the site’s Recycle Bin! This way if the move did not work out and you want to recover the files – you can do from the site’s Recycle Bin.What happens when you move or copy in SharePoint and OneDrive Move You can move/copy to another SharePoint Site (from SharePoint and OneDrive).You can move/copy to own OneDrive (from SharePoint).You can move/copy within the same library (in SharePoint).There are three choices available to you when you move and copy content: Where can you move and copy documents in SharePoint and OneDrive? Since Document libraries also allow you to save links in addition to files and folders, you can also move or copy those links as well! You can move any links stored in your SharePoint Document Libraries or OneDrive.You can move any files or folders that are stored in your SharePoint Document Libraries or OneDrive.What can you move and copy in SharePoint and OneDrive? Luckily, we now have the native option to move and copy documents in SharePoint and OneDrive. This was not possible in the old (classic) document library and required the user to utilize third-party apps or open a library in Windows Explorer. One of my favorite features of the modern document library in SharePoint Online is the ability to move and copy documents across sites.
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