Cannot perform this operation because the item you try to replace is currently checked out

Symptoms

When attempting to copy or edit a document, ShareGate's migration tool displays the following message:

Cannot perform this operation because the item you try to replace is currently checked out.

Error code

Details

Solution

There are three possible solutions to this issue:

1. Turn off your workflows and event handlers that cause documents to be checked out while using ShareGate's migration tool.
2. If no workflow is set to run automatically, discard the checkout on the target document and try to rerun the operation. It might have happened because someone checked out the document while you ran the operation in ShareGate's migration tool.
3. Check-in all checked-out documents by following this path in the New Report feature in Reporting:
   1. Click Reporting
   2. Select New Report
   3. Select Object Type Document
   4. Select Checked Out Status Is Checked Out
   5. Continue either with or without saving
   6. Select your target
   7. Click Run
   8. Click Edit selected result(s)
   9. Select Transformation Check In As [required version]. Note: You can also Discard Checked Out to achieve the same result, but this transformation is not recommended as it will delete any changes a user made to the checked-out document.
   10. Click Apply
   11. Click Continue
   12. All your selected documents will now be checked in.