How to expand SharePoint locations with 5000+ items

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If you have SharePoint locations having more than 5000 items directly in that location when you try to expand location in ReplaceMagic you will see following error message:



To create correct index go to your SharePoint location where you have 5000+ items. For example:



and click on which will open:



where you need to click on "Library Settings" and, as you can see in screenshot, we have document library with 732558 documents (and threshold limit is 5000):



Scroll down on that page where you will need to click on "Indexed columns":


where you will have option to create new index:


To enable drill-downs you will need to create index on column "Content Type":


As index creation will take some time when it is done you will see:



and ReplaceMagic will be able to drill down those large locations.




More infos over Microsoft site: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manage-large-lists-and-libraries-in-sharepoint-b8588dae-9387-48c2-9248-c24122f07c59