Files move from on site server- shared drive to Sharepoint site without breaking hyperlinks

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Files move from on site server- shared drive to Sharepoint site without breaking hyperlinks

Sam Guna 1

FileServer to sharepoint migration

We have migrated files from shared drive ( G : drive - on local server) to O365 SharePoint site . Now hyperlinks attached to the documents are not working . How can we fix this issue .

Steps Done

Created O365- Sharepoint site
Migrated the files from local server to a document library in the SP site

Issue :
Hyperlinks embedded within document and they were pointing to a sub folder /other documents in local drive ( G drive) . Now all those docs are in another sharepoint site SP-G Drive . - links are not working

Emily Du-MSFT 51,846 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-12-21T08:26:42.78+00:00

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Emily Du-MSFT 51,846 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-12-21T08:26:42.78+00:00

Thank you for your question.

We are currently looking into this issue and will give you an update as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

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Emily Du-MSFT 51,846 Microsoft External Staff

@Sam Guna

Based on your description, I understand that documents referred to by hyperlinks were migrated from the local drive (G drive) to the SharePoint site. Hyperlinks are invalid now.

In this situation, you need to manually update hyperlinks to new path of documents.

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Yanli Jiang - MSFT 31,606 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-12-27T12:58:23.97+00:00

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Emily Du-MSFT 51,846 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-01-03T06:58:48.477+00:00

@Sam Guna

I’m checking how the things are going on about this issue. Whether the answer helps you?

If there is any problem with this issue, feel free to let me know.
DannyVB 21 Reputation points

2023-01-09T17:02:13.167+00:00

I have made a follow up question
"Hyperlinks do not work after move from shared drive to Sharepoint site"

See
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1157282/hyperlinks-do-not-work-after-move-from-shared-driv.html
DannyVB 21 Reputation points

2023-01-09T17:02:45.067+00:00

I have made a follow up question
"Hyperlinks do not work after move from shared drive to Sharepoint site"

See
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1157282/hyperlinks-do-not-work-after-move-from-shared-driv.html
Egdorf, Rick 0 Reputation points

2023-02-20T15:04:26.6133333+00:00

In this situation, you need to manually update hyperlinks to new path of documents.

Totally unacceptable answer. SharePoint should not alter relative path URLs that are coded within uploaded HTML documents, including bookmarks. That should have been a "must have" design requirement for the SharePoint app. Total fail!

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