Challenges of Migrating Shared ShareFile Folders to SharePoint

Are you an enterprise planning to transfer from ShareFile to SharePoint? ShareFile contains both personal folders and shared folders. When you perform a full transition, ensure that you migrate shared folders from ShareFile to SharePoint without negligence.

In this blog post, we have discussed shared ShareFile folders and how our tool migrates by overcoming challenges.

1. Replicating Permissions

Generic migration approaches fail to replicate necessary folder permissions in SharePoint when you transfer ShareFile folders. CloudFuze Migrate helps you migrate ShareFile folders to SharePoint Online while preserving root folder permissions, subfolder permissions, and access levels.

2. API Throttling Issues

Our advanced cloud migration tool helps you eliminate the risks of API throttling. We perform enterprise-scale migration of ShareFile shared folders in a phased manner. We segregate the user account and ShareFile data into several batches. By this, we ensure that API flow requests do not exceed the limit.

3. Data Breach Issues

Shared Folders in ShareFile hold all folders (created by you or others) that you have access to. So, it is very important to guarantee a trusted migration tool for transferring your shared folders from ShareFile.

At CloudFuze, we use data centers with up-to-date SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications. We adhere to GDPR and ISO 27001 compliance to ensure the highest security standards during our migrations. So, enterprises can be sure that their sensitive ShareFile data and shared folders are completely secure with our cloud platform.

4. Managing Incremental Changes

In a business environment, teams keep working continuously, with no pauses in folder creation or file/folder modifications. Teams frequently update shared folders in ShareFile. It is critical to migrate the updated content to maintain workflow continuity. Our advanced migration tool seamlessly handles incremental changes through delta migration with no downtime.

5. Managing Folder Duplication During Transfer

Another major challenge to tackle when migrating shared ShareFile folders to SharePoint is avoiding duplication. Manually copying and pasting shared folders is not a reliable method. You may face duplication or context loss during this strenuous process.

Manual creation of CSV files for user mapping can lead to duplicate entries. Recurrences in CSV mappings will result in duplicate users in the SharePoint environment.

Our migration platform addresses this issue by analyzing the CSV files, identifying duplicate mappings, and excluding them from migration.

This smart mapping mechanism ensures that you transfer shared folders without duplication.

More on Shared Folders in ShareFile

Any folders you plan to share with your teams have to be created or moved to the ‘Shared Folders’ area in SharePoint. Your shared folders in ShareFile serve as the root of your entire account.

You can access the root Shared Folders location when the permission to create root-level folders is assigned. Also, one can access the root Shared With Me folder even when they do not have the create root-level folders permission assigned.

Transferring Shared ShareFile Folders to SharePoint using our Migration Tool

Image 1: ShareFile platform with shared folders

Image 2: Shared ShareFile folders migrated accurately to SharePoint using our tool

What Do Customers Say About Us?

As per the Gartner Peer Insights review, which reflects a rating of 4.7/5, we have helped several enterprises perform successful cloud migrations. Here is a June 2025 Gartner review by our customers that showcases a successful OneDrive and SharePoint migration.

In the review, the customer praised us for our reasonable pricing and appreciated our professional and competent cloud service. We got appreciation for accurate project migration and on-time completion.

Overcome Challenges of Migrating Shared ShareFile Folders to SharePoint with CloudFuze

Migrating shared ShareFile folders to SharePoint is no longer out of bounds. With CloudFuze as your migration partner, overcome your migration challenges and ensure a complete ShareFile migration with folders and metadata intact.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How do I move a shared folder to SharePoint?

You can easily move a shared folder to SharePoint with a reliable third-party migration tool. CloudFuze Migrate helps you in seamless migration of shared folders to your new SharePoint environment from clouds such as ShareFile, Egnyte, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, etc.

2. Does moving folders in SharePoint break links?

No, embedded or hyperlinks in SharePoint do not break when you move folders within a SharePoint environment. Without any risk of link breakage, you can move your folders to SharePoint from various cloud platforms by using CloudFuze Hyperlink Fixer.

3. How to transfer folders from ShareFile to SharePoint?

You can transfer from ShareFile to SharePoint using a reliable cloud migration tool. CloudFuze Migrate is one of the most advanced cloud migration tools to move to SharePoint/OneDrive from ShareFile while ensuring enterprise-grade security and compliance.