SPMT - Exclude certain folders?

[Olliedawg]

Starting our migration to sharepoint/onedrive

 

For our users the downloads folder is located within their Home folder on the network. The Home folder will be migrated to the users OneDrive, however i'd like to exclude the Downloads folder if possible. Some users have 10GB+ download folders & I don't think its necessary to upload these.

 

I'm planning on doing the migrations via CSV - is there an exclude field? I can't find anything on M$ docs regarding this

[River]

Before running the SPMT I used PowerShell to clean up (delete) folders like the recycle bin. I removed access to their home folders at the start of the process having emailed users beforehand so they knew there would be a brief period when they wouldn't be able to access their files.

[Olliedawg]

Before running the SPMT I used PowerShell to clean up (delete) folders like the recycle bin. I removed access to their home folders at the start of the process having emailed users beforehand so they knew there would be a brief period when they wouldn't be able to access their files.

 

I think thats the best way.

 

I'll give staff a couple of days to move anything they need from their downloads folder to another location, then i'll run a script to delete all Downloads folders from their Home folders, set read only permissions on their Home folder & then run the migration.

 

Shame you can't exclude specific sub folders with the migration tool, would have been easier

[NegativeKillDeath]

I'll give staff a couple of days to move anything they need from their downloads folder to another location, then i'll run a script to delete all Downloads folders from their Home folders, set read only permissions on their Home folder & then run the migration.

 

The problem with this is time constrained users will just copy their whole downloads folder to somewhere else. I'd try and script a move of the download folders to outside their home folder so it doesn't get picked up by the migration tool and allow them read only access for a set time.

[psydii]

Its been four/five years since I was using it, but I seem to recall excluding folders was possible.

 

https://www.thinkscape.com/SharePoint-Online-File-Migration-Tool/#:~:text=Use%20optional%20file%20name%20filters%20and%20exclude%20paths,exclude%20files%20that%20are%20over%201GB%20in%20size.

 

Skim reading the above, I feel as though I probably did similar to avoid some legacy redirected folders like appdata / downloads / recycle bin that has been hanging around on the fileservers since 2009.