OK, I’ve spent the last year of my life buried in SharePoint migrations. I’ve learned many, many things and even wrote my “Step-by-Step – A REAL world upgrade of a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) farm to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)” document to help others out who had to fight through the process. One thing I had not noticed before but just picked up on is related to WSS site migrations. If you look at the following screen print…
![092407_1342_DontpanicS1](http://crayveon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/092407_1342_DontpanicS1.png)
You will notice that the WSS site in question has two document libraries, General and Protected. There are 83 items listed in the General library and only 1 item in the Protected library. After migrating this site to WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007, and selecting the “View All Site Contents” link, I noticed the following…
![092407_1342_DontpanicS2](http://crayveon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/092407_1342_DontpanicS2.png)
As you can see, on the migrated site, SharePoint is reporting 117 items in the General library and 18 in the Protected library. This really perplexed me so I dug a little deeper. I refused to believe that there was a problem with the migration process and that I might be losing data… I was right.
As it turned out, WSS 3.0 reports folders as Items too! ![😉](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2/svg/1f609.svg)
So, in this case, where the Protected library contains 1 document and 17 folders in its folder structure, WSS 3.0 is reporting it as 18 items whereas WSS 2.0 reported it as only 1 item.
So, if you run across this, never fear. The explanation is simple enough…
Cheers
C
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