I'm wondering if there's a way to migrate 700GB of data from a personal OneDrive account to an Office 365 OneDrive account. I recently spoke with someone who mentioned that due to the lack of Entra settings in OneDrive personal, it might not be possible. I really want to avoid the tedious process of manually copying and pasting everything if there's a better solution. Has anyone gone through this kind of transfer before?
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I had a similar issue and what worked for me was signing out of the personal account and then signing back in with the work or school account. It synced everything over, but check Microsoft’s docs—they might have info on tenant-to-tenant migrations. I'm not sure if personal counts as its own tenant, though.
There used to be a tool called Mover.io that made this easier, but Microsoft discontinued it last year. Now, your best bet might be to set up both the personal and Office 365 OneDrives on the same system, sync your files down, and then copy them over. It's a bit tedious, but it's currently one of the easier options you have unless you can find something like Sharegate that works with personal accounts.
I remember Mover too! It was super handy.
I recently moved about 5TB from SharePoint to a Synology using PowerShell's Move-Item command. I did it in manageable subfolder groups to avoid issues like path length limits. You can log into both OneDrive accounts on the same computer and the file paths will be something like C:UsersusernameOneDrive - CompanyNameDocuments and C:UsersusernameOneDriveDocuments. Just use this command:
```powershell
Move-Item 'C:UsersusernameOneDrive - CompanyNameDocuments' 'C:UsersusernameOneDriveDocuments' -Recurse
```
I see how that could work, but with most files being in the cloud and my computer's hard drive being only 250GB, I’d have to figure out a way to move them over. Perfect world scenario would be using a tool like Fly for an easier transfer.
How many files do you have? Knowing the count might help in figuring out the best way to deal with it.
There's way too much to count, but it's like 700GB of mainly PDFs and videos.
Yeah, but with 600GB of files in the cloud and my computer being only 256GB, I can't just download everything to my computer for transfer. It’ll take way too long and disrupt the user’s access to their documents.