#copy-move 3 articles

• A copy job reports "finished" before the target shows every file – verify after the target settles, and read authors with $expandgotchas / rest-apiAfter CreateCopyJobs reports JobState 0, the target's /items can still miss hundreds of files for a while; re-read until two reads match, and compare authors via $expand on /items, not siteusers
• A file's time is not its item's time – a copy job carries the item time, and ListItemAllFields returns dates in the web's zone without "Z"gotchas / rest-apiTimeCreated/TimeLastModified of a file can differ from the item's Created/Modified by seconds or years; copy jobs carry the item time, so compare items – and read them from /items(id) (UTC), because ListItemAllFields…
• Copy jobs fed with file URIs: the folders you pre-create carry your account and today's date – and the TaxCatchAll warning is just image tagsgotchas / rest-apiA CreateCopyJobs job that gets folder URIs carries folder metadata, a job fed with file URIs needs existing target folders, and folders created with AddUsingPath show the running account and the creation time until you…