- Home /
Question by
drudiverse · May 19, 2014 at 04:08 PM ·
prefabsemptyexplorer
copying and pasting prefabs makes them emtpy
I created a number of prefabs with .asset mesh files. I couldnt differentiate in unity-broswer icons what was a prefab and what was an asset, they had the same icon.
So i tried to copy all the .prefab files into a subfolder using windows explorer copy-paste.
The program emptied all the prefabs, they became white empty boxes, and i cant copy them back.
Why does the file system in unity do that? it's happened to me before and i dont understand.
Comment
Don't try to do this externally with the file browser. If you want to move prefabs between projects, Export Package by right-clicking on the prefab. Then in your other project , go Assets > Import Package > Custom Package
Your answer
![](https://koobas.hobune.stream/wayback/20220613145415im_/https://answers.unity.com/themes/thub/images/avi.jpg)