Sharepoint Uploading Progress Indicator

Question

We are transitioning our "production" files from a network share into being stored in Sharepoint. This has been a slow and tedious process, mostly because we are all newbies to Sharepoint. We thought we could just copy the folders into Sharepoint, queue up big stacks of these, and it would just work. Nope. It actually created the folder structures but didn't copy the files themselves. I am having to go back one folder at a time and copy its contents. Now, speed is the issue.

Small files complete quickly, but large files are very slow. In this example, I am copying 14 files, many of which are 140MB or larger. (Five of them are 1GB or larger.) The display shows that it is uploading 14 files, and I can see which ones have been completed. But, it would be very helpful to know what the overall progress is. At the very least, a progress bar would be helpful. Even better would be a view showing specific progress about the current file being copied.

If there is a better way to do the copies or if there is a better way to understand progress, I would love to learn about it.

Answer 1

Dear Tim OBriant，

Thanks for posting in Microsoft community. We are glad to help you.

We understand the uploading process are slow with big files on your side. Basically the speed depends on the internet environment and the Microsoft server location. You may have a try with the following work around and see if this could be faster:

1.Create a short cut of the SharePoint to OneDrive for Business: Add shortcuts to shared folders in OneDrive for work or school - Microsoft Support

2.Upload the files in your local OneDrive sync folder(The shortcut folder): Sync files with OneDrive in Windows - Microsoft Support

3.Check if the speed would be faster or not.

If the speed of the uploading process is still slow, we're afraid this issue may need to check the environment on your side for further investigation.

As forum support we may not have enough permission and resource to directly check the environment on your side.

We notice you post this question in For business category, so we suppose you have Microsoft 365 for business subscription. In this situation, we sincerely recommend you contact your Microsoft 365 administrator, follow steps in this article and try to create a support ticket to contact Online Support. The support team over there has higher permission than us, they can remotely help check the situation on your side, involve more resource to collect logs and help you do troubleshooting. This would be a more efficient way in handling this case for you.

For reference: How do I find my Microsoft 365 admin?

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation! Have a good day.

Sincerely,

Sean | Microsoft Community Moderator