Migrate Files from Dropbox to SharePoint Without Breaking Links

Migrating files from Dropbox to SharePoint is not without its challenges, and one of the major challenges is breakage of hyperlinks in SharePoint Online. This issue is inherent in most cloud storage migrations and every company, and its IT team must plan a workaround to mitigate it. Explore such strategies and tips below:

What Causes Dropbox Links to Break in SharePoint Online?

When migrating files from Dropbox to SharePoint, the address in hyperlinks pointing to Dropbox locations, such as root or subfolder locations, remain the same in SharePoint post-migration. And the unavailability of those Dropbox locations in SharePoint Online causes the links to break and not work.

Impact of Broken Hyperlinks in SharePoint Online

Broken hyperlinks can disrupt the ongoing operations and impact user collaboration on an organization wide scale. The biggest impact for businesses is often the significant cost to fix broken links post-migration.

Avoid Breaking Links When Migrating Files from Dropbox to SharePoint Online

With our link migration tool, LinkEx, your team can avoid the issue of broken links when migrating files and folders from Dropbox to SharePoint Online, even when performing the migration at a large enterprise scale.

Apart from its industry leading functionality of automatically correcting hyperlinks during the migration, LinkEx does not affect the data transfer speed or raise risks of downtime.

Here are the file types that LinkEx supports for correction of hyperlinks:

Fix Links That Have Already Broken in SharePoint Online

If you have already migrated files and folders from Dropbox to SharePoint Online with another migration vendor, you can still use our LinkEx tool as a reconciliation solution to fix the broken links.

Our tool automatically identifies all the links that have broken in SharePoint Online and fixes them at an ultra-high speed. This way, your company can save a lot of time and money while avoiding use impact and disruption in the ongoing operations.

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