Teamsite 6.5 CopyTo issue

boggle

Whereas the blurb on CopyTo says:
Use Copy to duplicate a file or folder under a different name or in a different location in the same workarea. Use Copy to to duplicate content in a different workarea. The Copy to command duplicates the targeted content and its file system structure (all the folders you need to go through to get to the item) in the destination workarea (you cannot select a specific workarea folder). Copy to provides a convenient way to mirror content in multiple workareas, or to restore content back to specific versions.

What we experienced was that: You cannot copy any folder or element to a workarea of a different name. Folder copied from one workarea to another is copied above the target structure. The copied folder then has to be copied a second time to the correct area. Thereafter the DCR does not work correctly and the shtml files have to be recreated.

as we are approaching a large migration we are hoping to get CopyTo working as expected. Any suggestions?

Thank You

nipper

You have accurately described how copy_to should (and does) work. If you copy //templatedata/foo to another workarea, it will show up as /templatedata/foo

You can copy_to first and then use TS move. You can also use OpenDeploy to copy the files and it can bring the extended attributes.