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I'm moving all of my assets from a local folder to Amazon S3. I've got my S3 source all set up, and I've been migrating folders over to it by dragging & dropping.

The problem is, I have thousands of asset folders. I did the math, and it'll take me 4+ hours to drag & drop each of them.

Is there some way to bulk move asset folders?

If it's not possible in the CP, I'm open to plugin suggestions as well.

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I did this with grunt, using the grunt-aws-s3 task. It worked beautifully. If you are a gulp person, I'm sure there is something similar for gulp.

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  • Interesting... and that maintained all of the asset relationships? Or did you have to reindex your assets?
    – Lindsey D
    Commented Sep 17, 2015 at 6:53
  • I may have reindexed afterwards. But it got rid of the tedium of moving them.
    – Marion Newlevant
    Commented Sep 17, 2015 at 7:19
  • Hmm, I don't think that's gonna work for me. I'm not bothered by physically moving them. I need to maintain the existing relationships between these assets and thousands of entries.
    – Lindsey D
    Commented Sep 17, 2015 at 7:23
  • Maybe you can move them by just uploading all assets to S3 manually. Then in the database go in and change the "Asset ID" for the current selection of assets to your new "S3 Asset folder". Since the paths are the same... this might work.
    – naboovalley
    Commented Sep 17, 2015 at 8:00
  • @naboovalley Very interesting! I'll test that out and let you know if it does the trick. Would you mind submitting that as a separate answer?
    – Lindsey D
    Commented Sep 17, 2015 at 18:24
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I ended up doing this the old-fashioned way... hire cheap labor to do a tedious repetitious task!

Every other suggestion I got (here and in Slack) involved command line scripting and/or careful database manipulation. I wasn't really comfortable with either of those, especially since I had already started the drag & drop process.

So in the end, I just hired one of my buddies (for dirt cheap) to manually drag & drop each folder to the new source. Problem solved! :)

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  • Despite the fact that this actually solved my problem, I won't officially mark it as the correct answer. It's certainly atypical for a programmer to solve a problem this way, and it won't necessarily be the best solution for other folks who discover this thread.
    – Lindsey D
    Commented Sep 17, 2015 at 20:54

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