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Walkthrough - Copy content only

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Copy content only allows you to migrate content to the desired destination. You can copy documents, list items, folders, and document sets in SharePoint or Microsoft 365.

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Prerequisites

  • You have Full control permissions on your source and destination lists or libraries.
  • You have term store admin permissions on your source and destination if you have managed metadata (Terms, Term sets, Term set groups) in your migration scope.

Tip: We recommend having site collection admin permissions since they are required to run your migration in Insane mode.

How-to

  1. Select Copy from the menu.
  2. Select Copy content only.
  3. Add your source credentials.
  4. Click Connect.
  5. Select your source site, then select the list or library you would like to copy the content from.
    Note: When you select a library at the source, lists will become unavailable at the destination and libraries will become unavailable if you select a list.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Add your destination credentials.
  8. Click Connect.
  9. Select your destination site, and select the list or library you would like to copy the content to.
  10. Click Next.
  11. Select the content you would like to copy from the source. You can copy all content from your list or library. This includes:
    • Folders folder.png
    • Site Pages and Master Pages site-page.png
    • Documents word-doc.png
    • Excel Files excel-doc.png
    • Web Part Galleries web-part-gallery.png
    • Images image.png
    • Markup Files markup-file.png
  12. Click Options and/or Mappings on the top-right if you want to apply specific parameters. 
  13. Drag and drop the content into the destination, or click Start copy on the bottom-right corner. 

Once the action is completed, the migration report will show any successes, warnings, or errors. For more information, see Migration report.

Migrate to a destination that contains workflows

If the destination list or library has any workflows enabled, we strongly suggest disabling them before your migration in order to prevent all workflows from being triggered during migration. You can re-enable them once the migration is complete.

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