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'Copy item to a specified space' Action

nyronian
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Ok….

after using "Copy item to a specified space" action on several folder in my system I realized it does not actually create copies of the content, instead it creates pointers to the original content. If the content is changed in one of the folders, it is changed everywhere. 

So I got to spend many hours unraveling the mess I created.  :cry:  Don't worry, I'm quite sure it works exactly as the programmer intended for it to work.  Smiley Happy


But, now that it is mostly unraveled, I would like to find a way to actually create copies of a folder, its subfolders and it content into a new space or somtimes into the same parent space with a different name. 

An Import/Export would work but then I can't pull it into the same space with a different name.  Does that make sense?  For example:

folder1 > folder2.

I export folder2 and want the exact copy named folder3 under folder1. 

folder1 > folder2
folder1 > folder3

When I export and then import folder2 it will try to overright folder2.  And I can't just rename folder2 to folder3 and import it as folder2 because of other reasons (metadata pointing to folder2 in other parts of the system)

Hope that makes sense.  Right now, I'm just recreating everything and copying them manually.

Thanks.
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rivetlogic
Champ on-the-rise
Champ on-the-rise
Hi,

What you can do is use the "Advanced Space Wizard" and select "Based on an existing space", select the space you want and you will be given the option to input the name of the new space.

Hope this helps,

-Aladdin