Re: Export/import of DocLibrary between SharePoint Servers

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You can't copy a document library from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007.

That is using Microsoft tools provided with those products. There may be third-party migration tools that can do this.

Apart from an upgrade-in-place (or one of the other two upgrade methods) for the enitre SPS 2003, you can use old methods for copying document libraries.

Create a new document library in MOSS and give it exactly the same fields as the SPS 2003 doc lib.

Then create an identical view in both SPS and MOSS which contains all fields sorted in the same way and with the Name field (=filename) listed first in the view.

Then open both document libs (old and new) in two different browser copies in Explorer View and *copy* (not move) all documents from SPS to MOSS.

Then open both doc libs old and new) in two different browser copies in Data*** View (using that common view). Because the files are identical in both old and new doc libs thanks to the above copy, you can now in Data*** View old select the contents of all rows and all columns except the first column and then paste these into the top row; second column of the new document library.

Make sure before you do this that all file types used in the old doc lib are accepted in the new system. Check this afterwards by checking the number of rows in each Data*** View.

Mike Walsh
WSS FAQ http://www.wssfaq.com
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Hrvoje Vrbanc wrote:
Dear all,

I have a question: what's the most convinient way of copying a document library from one SharePoint Server to another?

I have a production SPS2003 site and would like to export the document libraries from it and then import them to the SPS2007 site located on another server.

I have certain problems so I would like to avoid SPS2003 upgrade and use the SPS2007 clean installation.

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards,
Hrvoje


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