Copy Material Function from one project to another

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I am reusing a material by simply copying the .umap asset into my Content colder.
However for some reason the Material Function inside my material is not being copied.

I can open the Material Function and just copy the Expressions(nodes) but they end up losing all their connections after pasting!

There must be a way to easily copy materials using Material Functions.
Can someone help?

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You need to use ‘migrate’ in the right click menu.

If you do a lot of moving stuff in the explorer you will end up with a very broken project pretty quickly…

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Thanks. Yes I am learning that! Never copy paste. ALWAYS migrate. IMHO copying/pasting of expression/nodes from one project to another should be entirely disabled so novices like myself don’t experience the same issue.

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Yeah, you really have to watch it, it can be very surprising what items are related by references…