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# Copying & Moving Content

## Copying within a Drive

You can copy a file or an entire folder by right-clicking the file/folder you’d like to duplicate and selecting “Copy File/Folder.” Please note that metadata and comments are not carried over.

## Copying between Drives

Shade currently does not support a feature to copy content between drives, but content can be copied through the ShadeFS mount. 

Before you begin, your cache space must be double the size of the amount of footage you want to transfer. You can change this from your [workspace settings](/shadefs/managing-the-shadefs-cache.md). For example, if you want to move 50GB between your drives, you should have at least 100GB of cache space reserved.

1. Mount the drive with the source content
2. Mount the drive with the destination folder
3. Copy the folder directly from your file explorer
4. Monitor upload status from the Shade app

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### Copies greater than your cache space

If you need to copy more content than your cache space can support, consider doing a full folder download by right-clicking on the folder and downloading, and then complete a full folder uploading by dragging and dropping the folder into the new drive.

### Copies greater than 5TB

If you need to copy more than 5TB of assets between drives, we recommend setting up an automated job using Rclone, a third party tool designed for transferring large amounts of data between remotes.\
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## Moving Assets

You can move assets into folders by simply dragging and dropping them.

The most common reason files or folders fail to move is a naming conflict. For example, if you try moving `Asset.png` from `/Edits` to `/Ready` and a file named `Asset.png` already exists in `/Ready`, the move will fail. The same applies to folders.

Before moving assets, make sure the destination folder doesn’t already contain a file or folder with the same name.


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