SharePoint Online - Move folders between sites

Question

A sector of the company has spread into smaller parts and I need to migrate the data to the correct sites, however I need to maintain the version history, I managed to create a script to copy the data, but it loses the file history.

It is very important to keep the version history, can someone help me to assemble a script to perform this copy keeping the version history.

As the folder is big, I can't move it using the site's copy/move function, only script works.

Answer 1

Hi @Wesley ,

You can use Copy-PnPFile cmd.

SYNTAX

Copy-PnPFile [-SourceUrl] <String> [-TargetUrl] <String> [-Overwrite] [-Force] [-IgnoreVersionHistory] [-NoWait] [-Connection <PnPConnection>]  
  [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

Copies a file or folder to a different location. This location can be within the same document library, same site, same site collection or even to another site collection on the same tenant. Notice that if copying between sites or to a subsite you cannot specify a target filename, only a folder name. It is currently not possible to copy files between a OneDrive for Business site to SharePoint or vice versa.

NOTE:

Moving and copying across sites

Copying/Moving multiple files in a single operation has three requirements:

• No more than 100 GB total file size
• No more than 30,000 files
• Each file must be less than 15 GB

For more information, please refer to:

https://pnp.github.io/powershell/cmdlets/Copy-PnPFile.html

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Answer 2

Hi,

This script was used to perform the migration of folders:

$SiteURL = "https://*****.sharepoint.com/sites/Administrative"
$SourceFolderURL= "Serv Files/cost center/"
$TargetFolderURL = "/sites/Financial/Serv Files"

Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -UseWebLogin
Copy-PnPFile -SourceUrl $SourceFolderURL -TargetUrl $TargetFolderURL -Force