Coming soon · File shares & clouds → Microsoft 365, Google, S3, Azure
Move your data to SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Google Drive, Azure Blob or AWS S3 — and let Approdo auto‑fix the permissions, long paths, locked files and orphaned SIDs that make migrations fail. Everything else only reports them. Approdo remediates them — at a fraction of ShareGate's price.
The problem
Other tools hand you a report and a weekend of manual fixing. Approdo fixes them for you, then migrates.
Years of NTFS sprawl, deny rules and broken inheritance that don't survive the move.
SharePoint rejects them; your deep folders simply don't fit.
In use at copy time, so every other tool silently skips them.
Ex‑staff and dead groups that break permission mapping and attribution.
What is Approdo?
Approdo is a data‑migration platform from The Cloud Platform Limited that moves file shares and cloud data between any source and destination — file servers, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Azure Blob and AWS S3 — and automatically remediates the permissions, long paths, locked files and orphaned identities that cause migrations to fail. It launches with file‑server‑to‑SharePoint migration and is priced for MSPs and small businesses. (Not to be confused with Approyo, an SAP hosting company — Approdo is a file & content migration tool.)
How it works
The Approdo agent scans your shares and returns a readiness report: long paths, illegal names, locked files, permission complexity and orphaned SIDs.
It auto‑fixes: take ownership, standardise permissions, truncate/flatten long paths, VSS‑snapshot locked files and clean deleted SIDs — all logged and reversible.
The cloud engine moves everything via Microsoft's Migration API — preserving metadata, versions and permissions — then delta‑syncs and cuts over cleanly.
The difference
| Capability | Microsoft SPMT | ShareGate | Approdo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre‑migration assessment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto‑fix permissions / ownership | ✕ | ✕ flattens | ✓ |
| Fix 400‑char long paths | ✕ | partial | ✓ |
| Capture locked / open files | ✕ skips | ✕ skips | ✓ VSS |
| Remediate orphaned SIDs | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Preserve metadata + versions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Price | Free (no fixing) | ~US$5,995/yr | from £0 → £3,995/yr |
Comparison based on published vendor capabilities, Oct 2026. Figures indicative.
Safe by design
The agent surveys and remediates in place. Your files never pass through us.
Uploads use the official SharePoint Migration API — the same engine the big tools ride.
Every fix and every file is recorded — a full, exportable audit trail for compliance.
Remediation is planned, shown to you, and undo‑able. Nothing happens without your sign‑off.
Our promise
When Approdo launches, the free assessment will show you a dry‑run of every permission, path and locked‑file fix it will make — before a penny changes hands. Fixed, upfront pricing. No per‑seat surprises, no skipped files discovered after cutover.
Pricing
Indicative pricing — subject to confirmation.
Guides
Practical guides on the problems that break migrations — and how to fix them.
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.
Approdo's Path Master truncates and flattens over‑length paths automatically, with a logged and reversible plan, before upload — no manual renaming.
Yes — Approdo takes a VSS snapshot so in‑use files are captured consistently, instead of being skipped like other migrators.
They are, but 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.
Coming soon
Be first in line. Register your interest and we'll email you the moment Approdo is ready — including early access to the free assessment.