Copying files from a Sharepoint Server

Uploading files in bulk to Sharepoint is easy – when you upload a file there’s a “multiple Items” link. Click that and you can select the files to upload.

Imagine you’ve got to copy the contents of a Picture Library to your hard drive. How do you download them in bulk?

There’s a couple of ways. Over at Bluedog Limited there’s a program called http://MySharepointSite. Open up a command prompt on your PC and type

NET USE * \\MySharepointSite

This will add a drive letter that maps to the top of the Sharepoint site. Now you can treat it like any other drive and navigate to the document or library folder either within the command prompt or the file explorer.