Find checked out files in SharePoint Online

As an admin you may be required to move/copy files in SharePoint Document libraries between libraries or sites (or even just folders within a library). However, you may find that certain items do not get moved as they have been ‘checked out’ – knowingly or otherwise – by users, and this prevents the move. There doesn’t appear to be a simple way to find all checked out items for all users, but the SharePoint Maven website has some useful tips for creating views that help with narrowing down the search.

The main instructions for finding checked out files can be found here, but you may also need to create a flat ‘folderless’ view first. Note that if there are a large number of files within the structure you are searching the online view does not show all the files immediately; it is better to drill down as low in the the folder structure as you can go and work back up, looking for checked out files (with the newly created view) as you go.