Straight answers
Yes — Approdo does file‑to‑SharePoint migration from free, with paid tiers from £1,950/yr (vs ShareGate ~US$5,995), and it auto‑fixes the permission, long‑path and locked‑file problems ShareGate only reports.
Approdo surveys the NTFS permissions, remediates broken inheritance, ownership and orphaned SIDs, then maps them to SharePoint during migration — preserving fidelity other tools flatten. Full guide →
Approdo's Path Master truncates and flattens over‑length paths automatically, with a logged and reversible plan. Full guide →
Yes — Approdo takes a VSS snapshot so in‑use files are captured consistently, instead of being skipped.
They don't remediate: no permission fixing, long‑path fixing, locked‑file capture or SID cleanup. Approdo is the step up when the free tools hit the remediation wall.
It launches with file server → SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams, and is built as an any‑source → any‑destination platform. Google Drive, Azure Blob and AWS S3 routes are on the roadmap.
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