How to Properly Change a Folder's Location

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I recently changed a folder’s location (the folder contained a lot of sound effects) in my project to try and clean things up a bit, and after moving it I made sure to fix up redirectors in folder, and validate assets in folder (for my entire project) and didn’t have any issues, but now everytime I open my project the log pops up with hundreds of “Failed to Load” messages for every sound cue that was in that folder.

It’s not too big of an issue, I can reassign all of the sound waves, but would like to know if there’s any better way to change a folder’s location without having to risk everything in the folder breaking. I’ve had this happen before, and am pretty sure it’s a common issue, but it can’t be impossible to move a folder without breaking everything, I’m just not sure what I missed/did wrong.

Thank you in advance!

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There’s three methods for sure.

  1. Don’t
  2. Don’t
  3. Create backup and pray

Lol just kidding, but it’s generally not a good idea to try to mass move assets or rename folders. I definitely wish it wasn’t this way, but trying to handle reassigning users of all those assets is really a lot to ask. You can only get away with it if there’s not that much in the folder.

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Lol yea that makes sense, it was a ton of files and I should’ve just left it. Wasn’t sure if it was because of the amount of files in it, or if there’s some sort of method you have to follow to make sure there’s no issue.

I appreciate the fast response, and I’ll for sure follow methods 1-2 in the future lol