Selecting more than 100 files in Document Library

Question

_{Thursday, August 5, 2010 1:00 PM | 1 vote}

I created my own document library with my own view which can show up to 200 files on one page. When I try to use the checkbox in the upper left corner of my document library to select all files I get an error message: You can't select more than 100 files at the same time. Is there any way to get around this message as I need to be able to select all files no matter if they are located on page 1 or 2 or 40.

Showing all files on one page would be an option but I'm still not able to select all at once.

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_{Monday, August 9, 2010 8:50 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Just reading the lists and libraries limit and one of the limits is that through the SharePoint UI a user can only select a maximum of 100 items to be bulk processed at one time.

So it looks like its a hard limit through the UI unfortunately...

Have a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx under the bulk operation section

Cheers

_{Friday, August 6, 2010 8:49 AM}

Nobody had this problem before?

_{Monday, August 9, 2010 7:22 AM}

I'm really curios if nobody ever ran into this problem? Why is nobody else looking for a possibility to select more than 100 items as this should be a common size in a document library or a normal list.

_{Monday, August 9, 2010 8:34 PM}

It appears to be hard coded limit for either UI or server performance reasons. This option was not even available in SP2007, so even with a limit of 100 it is still a nice feature.certdev.com

_{Monday, August 9, 2010 11:32 PM}

Do you experience the same thing when you go to the Site Manager?

/_Layouts/SiteManager.aspx

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_{Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:14 PM}

Do you experience the same thing when you go to the Site Manager?

/_Layouts/SiteManager.aspx

 

I don't have that many sites on my server so I can't tell you if it's the same experience there. As for the other answers thank you for your help as I didn't expect a hard coded limit there. I haven't been working with SP 2007 so I didn't feel the improvement with SP 2010 rather than the limitation ;-).

Thanks anyway for all your help.

_{Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:57 PM}

This limit (maximum 100 items available for select at once) is a client side limitation, so you can try to pass this by with a little development. I've described a concept for the solution here - http://byteloom.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-cannot-select-more-than-100-items.html