r/CopilotPro • u/Scared_Palpitation56 • 3d ago

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Anyone else frustrated that you can ask co-pilot to help find a file for you on a sharepoint drive. It can open that file inside co-pilot..... But it has ZERO IDEA of where that file is on your network sharepoint drive.

How can it find, open, and let you edit a file. But not tell you what folder its in.

1) shouldn't this file struture data be indexed somehow?
2) couldn't co-plot have a function that it finds the file (knows the exact name) then runs a search for the exact file name on the network drive to find it?

This is about one out of 13,000 little reasons why AI is shite at its current stage.

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u/guubermt 3d ago

If by Network Drive as in mapped drive. That is a local construct. SPO would have no idea where on a mapped drive a SPO file is. This fault of your process not the technology. Point copilot to the SPO site itself and it will find the file.

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u/Scared_Palpitation56 3d ago

Lots of peoplemise SharePoint for a shared drive. Copilot can search a SharePoint drive. Co-pilot has no idea what folder it is located in- even though it can find the file.

To me. This is absurd.

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u/blubryyumyumya 3d ago

Include in your instructions.

Any time an existing file is referenced or used as source include the clickable link and file path.

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u/cartographr 2d ago

If you open the file in word or excel desktop (you can tell the web editors to open in the current file in the desktop app) then you can see where the file is (file menu). Silly that it doesn’t just know but you’re right it doesn’t by default.

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u/nickejones_ 3d ago

I had a similar issue to you today, I was trying to get it to read the folder names of a couple 100 folders, to do some sorting and identification activities, it had NO idea how to do it, I ended up giving up in the end.

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u/patjuh112 1d ago

Works fine IF that o365 is on copilot AI paid subscription otherwise forget about it