Moving folders · Safety and verification

What happens to aliases and links inside a folder I move?

Short answer: They're carried across as links rather than copies of their targets, so a link that pointed somewhere that still exists keeps working, and links within the same folder still resolve. A link you select directly in Data Parking is skipped.

They're carried across as links, not turned into copies of what they point to. A link inside a moved folder keeps pointing where it pointed before, so if it pointed somewhere that still exists, it still works.

A link that pointed to a relative place inside the same folder keeps working too, because the folder moves as a whole. When you select a link itself in Data Parking, it's skipped rather than moved, so Storage Studio never copies something onto its own link.

See Can I move a folder that's already a link?

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