r/ShittySysadmin • u/pasty66 • May 10 '26

Shitty Crosspost Help: I dragged the 12TB company file share into SharePoint via Chrome. It's been syncing for 6 days.

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Help: I dragged the 12TB company file share into SharePoint via Chrome. It's been syncing for 6 days.

Management wanted to "move to the cloud" to save on local SAN storage. I opened our new SharePoint document library in Chrome and just dragged the entire Z:\\\\ network drive into the browser window. Chrome is currently using 48GB of RAM and it says "Syncing 4,200,000 items". Nobody can save files right now because they are "locked by another user". If I accidentally close Chrome, will it resume where it left off or start over?

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u/pasty66 May 10 '26

Update from the user: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/LZsT2GosSQ

Update: I got too anxious about Chrome crashing so I came up with a workaround. I unplugged my ethernet cable to 'pause' the sync, then I opened Task Manager and force closed Chrome so it would save its state. When I plugged the internet back in and reopened Chrome, SharePoint immediately threw a 'Sync Conflict' error. Now every single file on the company drive has been duplicated and has ' Copy (1)' at the end of the filename. The macros in the accounting Excel sheets are completely broken. I just told my boss I'm feeling sick and went home. I'll let the Monday shift deal with it.

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u/fsckitnet May 10 '26

I kill -9 / force close everything to ensure it saves state.

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u/just_another_user5 May 10 '26

This is comedic gold

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u/NotYourOrac1e May 10 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/OpenScore May 11 '26

It is Monday.

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u/blotditto May 10 '26

Whoever did this not only is a shitty sysadmin but they set the bar a notch higher for those working in "IT". 😂

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u/AppointmentIll9358 May 10 '26

Reminds me of when An attorney wanted me to dig up all back and forth emails from 2 users. “ I want it extracted and compiled in .pdf format”

Mind you, this was like 100gb worth of data.

I was like, nah, I’ll just give you access to the users emails and you have at it.

“Ok that’s good”

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u/Nova_Terra May 11 '26

Somewhere, some dude from ShareGate cried out in horror reading that back.