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How to Split SharePoint Document Libraries to Simplify Synching

In my last post, I talked about how you need to split your SharePoint document libraries into smaller chunks in order to synch them. In this post, I'm going to assume that you made the same mistake that I made and put too many documents into the one document library. In my case, I have an IT Team SharePoint site which holds all of our IT documents. It makes sense to keep all our IT documents together. For the most part, the site doesn't need to be synched anywhere because it's mostly a storage mechanism.  For example, our Finance and Invoices sub-folder is a place where we save invoices.  It's not a place where we go to edit them. One area that I do need to be able to synch however is our projects and strategy area. Our projects are always needing updates and modern day IT strategy needs to be increasingly agile. It's always in a state of change. Step 1: Add a New Document Library The first step is to add a new document library. One of the great things