--- title: "The Moves log" url: https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-moves-log category: "Data Parking & moving folders" tags: ["data parking", "moving folders"] summary: "Data Parking keeps two records of your moves — the live Moves list for what you started in this window, and a move history with every recorded folder move, where a completed move can be reverted." updated: 2026-10-01T05:32:40.000Z --- # The Moves log Data Parking keeps two records of your moves — the live Moves list for what you started in this window, and a move history with every recorded folder move, where a completed move can be reverted. Data Parking shows your moves in two places. The **Moves** list at the bottom of the middle column follows the moves you've started in this window, live. The **move history**, behind the list button at the top of the middle column, keeps a record of folder moves over time — and that's where you **Revert** one. ## The Moves list The **Moves** list shows only moves you started in this Data Parking window since you opened it. Other parts of Storage Studio use the same mover — Storage Inspector, automatic moves and moves back — but their work doesn't crowd this list. Each row shows the folder name. While a move is running, the row says what it's doing — **Copying** with a percentage and a progress bar, then a line such as **Checking every file arrived intact…**, and finally **Removing source** or, for a Relocate, **Leaving links behind at the original place…**. When it stops, an icon shows how it ended: - a green tick — finished; - a red warning — failed, with the reason in plain English underneath (your original was not touched); - an orange drive — waiting for the drive, and it continues when the same drive is back; - a grey cross — cancelled. Hover over a row to see exactly where it's going. If the same item fails the same way more than once, the failures are grouped into one row with a count such as **×3**. Click a failed row to open its plain-English explanation in [Job Insights](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/background-activity). The buttons at the top of the list: - The **pause** button — a copy already running finishes, but nothing new starts until you click it again to resume. A **Paused** label shows while the list is paused. - The stop button, **Cancel all moves** — asks first, then stops every queued, running and waiting move in this window. Each row also has its own cancel button. - The tray button, **Clear finished moves** — removes completed, failed and cancelled rows. It appears once something has finished. Cancelling is always safe: your original is never removed until a move has finished. ## The move history Click the **list** button at the top of the middle column. The history shows recorded folder moves from across Storage Studio — including ones started from Storage Inspector or by automatic moves. Each entry shows its status, the folder name, when it started, where it went, how far it got and when it was last updated. A failed entry explains what went wrong. | Status | Meaning | | --- | --- | | Preparing | Queued, waiting for its turn | | Copying, Hashing, Verifying | Being copied, then checked against the original | | Cleaning up | The original is being removed, or replaced by shortcuts | | Completed | Finished | | Waiting for drive | Paused until the same drive is connected again | | Failed | Stopped before touching your original | | Cancelled | You stopped it | - **Revert** appears on **Completed** moves. It copies the folder back to where it came from — see [Moving a folder back](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/moving-a-folder-back). - The **bin** button removes an entry from the history. It doesn't touch your files. - **Refresh** re-reads the list; **Done** closes it. Storage Studio keeps the most recent 500 completed moves and the most recent 500 other finished moves; older entries are tidied away when the app starts. ```mermaid %% caption: Where a move appears from start to finish flowchart LR A[You press Move, Merge or Relocate] --> B[Row appears in the Moves list] B --> C[Copying then checking] C --> D{Finished well?} D -->|Yes| E[Completed - Revert is offered in the move history] D -->|No| F[Failed - original untouched, reason shown] ``` *Flowchart — Where a move appears from start to finish. Outline:* - You press Move, Merge or Relocate - leads to Row appears in the Moves list - Row appears in the Moves list - leads to Copying then checking - Copying then checking - leads to Finished well? - Finished well? - Yes: leads to Completed - Revert is offered in the move history - No: leads to Failed - original untouched, reason shown ## Clearing finished rows also clears history **Clear finished moves** in the Moves list removes those moves from the move history too — so a completed move you clear there can no longer be reverted from the history. If you might want to undo a move later, leave its row, or use the ← buttons in Data Parking to bring it back by hand. ## Live transfer logs The **terminal** button next to the list button opens **Live transfer logs**: a line-by-line record of each copy, its checks and any errors. **Copy all** puts it on the clipboard, which is useful when you [contact support](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/getting-help). See also: [Moving folders safely](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/moving-folders-safely), [A folder move failed or was cancelled](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/a-move-failed), [The drive was unplugged during a move](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/drive-unplugged-during-a-move). More answers: https://storagestudio.us/faq ## What links here - [A folder move failed or was cancelled](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/a-move-failed) - [A tour of the Data Parking window](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/the-data-parking-window) - [How Storage Studio keeps every change reversible](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/how-storage-studio-keeps-you-safe) - [Moving a folder back](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/moving-a-folder-back) - [Moving folders safely](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/moving-folders-safely) - [Moving with Storage Studio versus dragging in Finder](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/compared-with-dragging-in-finder) - [Restore Points](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/restore-points) - [Reviewing, stopping and checking a clear-up](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/reviewing-a-clear-up) - [The drive was unplugged during a move](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/drive-unplugged-during-a-move)